"Kurt Ullman" wrote in message "Robert Green"
wrote:

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I wonder how much is sunk costs

Oh, I hadn't notice that groaning pun before! (-:

As much as it pains me to admit this on lose a little respect from
you on my prowess with verbiage, I hadn't noticed the pun before either.

A subconscious "submarine" pun. Hmm.

and how much is marginal. Some of this
could also be used as training for some of the specialties.

We've got commercial ships joining in now - we've gone well into the
marginal costs - the question is who typically pays them? I haven't
been
able to find as much information about that as I thought I might. The
AirFrance crash had duelling deep pockets, with AF and Airbus each
paying to
look for evidence that the other was "on the hook" for the crash.

Probably the same here. Although I also have to wonder about whether
the airlines and makers have sorta come to the conclusion that there is
NO liability for either until it is found. Sorta like trying to convict
for murder without a body OR evidence.

Oh, they've convicted people of murder without a body before. People v.
Scott. It's messy, but it can be done. Boeing would certainly love the
outcome to be a hijacking rather than any on-board mechanical defect. Air
Malaysia, not so much because a hijacking means they were asleep at the
switch and allowed hijackers to board the plane. Probably by NOT checking
their luggage just as thoroughly as they failed to check for stolen
passports.

But it's all pure speculation until (if ever) the wreckage is found. The
time on the pingers is running out, too. All we've really learned so far is
what I mentioned weeks ago - the ocean is just chock full of garbage big
enough to be pieces of a downed jet. This really is a technological "fail"
as bad as any we've seen in recent years.

--
Bobby G.