Navy Growler crashes near Mount Rainier; 2 crew members missing
www.seattletimes.com
A search team launched from Whidbey Island to "locate the crew and examine the crash site," the Navy said. Identities of the crew members have not been released.
  • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
    65·
    13 hours ago

    How can they be missing? Either they can be confirmed dead in the rubble or they were ejected and i assume the ejection seats have gps tracking.

    • Chainweasel@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      9 hours ago

      i assume the ejection seats have gps tracking.

      I feel like having a detectable signal that an enemy would be able to use to track an ejected pilot behind enemy lines isn’t something they would design into a warplane.
      Even if the contents of the signal were encrypted, they could still track the unreadable signal to it’s source.

      • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
        52·
        8 hours ago

        You could just make it passive by default. Only if it gets pinged with the right cryptographic signature does it send out a response. Im sure they have smart people that can figure out shit like this.

    • catloafEnglish
      2·
      7 hours ago

      Was that information known at the time they wrote the article?

      • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
        11·
        5 hours ago

        I just checked another article and it says that 3.5h later the military still didnt know. Like bro what is that? Thats embarrassing. They have drones, satellites, thermal imaging. How could they not know anything?

    • saltesc@lemmy.world
      12·
      11 hours ago

      They’ll be missing until they’re found dead, or enough time passes where survival is not possible, factoring known survival materials and survival sources in proximity. As of now, the only statement that’s true; they are missing. Everything beyond that is likely or unlikely and you wouldn’t want your search party acting on that.