Flight 370 search expense to the public

[SHRED]

So how many public entities are working on this search worldwide? I know our US Navy is.

How many public dollars are being spent? I am guessing A LOT! A lot for a private industry screw up.
Will Malaysian Airlines reimburse governments worldwide involved in this? They should but I doubt if they will.

Forgive me if I am a bit jaded here but I had a friend die in a diving accident off La Jolla, CA years ago and the body was never recovered. To top it off the Navy was asked if they could use a sonar ship to look and they refused.

[oneofthe99]

1. It's not about recovering bodies it's about recovering what happened to the aircraft

If this was terrorism we need to know if it was a defect in the operating system of the aircraft we need to know.

[Logical]

2. Finding the cause is the reason. Not the people. nt

[Skittles]

3. they need to take all reasonable efforts to find out what happened to that plane

[Warren DeMontague]

4. It's an important thing to do.

You want to look at wastes of public money, look at the 60 Billion a year we spend arresting pot smokers.

[Agschmid]

6. Good lord... what a waste.

[Agschmid]

5. It's worth the cost...

All this equipment already exists, we might as well use it.

Also accidents like this one (when fully investigated, and a root cause identified) will help make travel safer for all of us int he future. This investigation even if costly is the right thing to do.

[JI7]

7. this isn't just about getting the body, you know how your friend died, we have no idea why this

plane went down.

i always find it interesting when people complain about things like this concerning all the other things that nations spend on.

[SHRED]

8. Oh I complain about other spending too...

...but I see yours and everyone's point here.


Thanks

[SevenSixtyTwo]

9. Unless new people were hired

and new equipment bought, I'm assuming we were already paying for personnel and equipment. This is just another task they have to do. If I'm totally wrong here, I'll concede I have no idea.

[frazzled]

10. It's not costing that much, in the larger scheme of things

The U.S. Department of Defense allocated $4 million to help search for the missing Malaysian jetliner. Between March 8 and March 24, it had spent $3.2 million, said spokesman Col. Steve Warren. As of late last week it had spent another $148,000. The Pentagon has allocated another $3.6 million to cover the cost of a towed pinger locator, used to detect underwater signals from aircraft black boxes, and an underwater autonomous vehicle, which can look for wreckage deep below the ocean surface.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/what-is-the-cost-of-the-search-for-malaysia-airlines-flight-370/

Do you know how small $8 million or so is in the US budget? Here's defense alone: 750 billion.




http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/01/07/everything-chuck-hagel-needs-to-know-about-the-defense

[onenote]

11. Marginal additional cost probably isn't that great

The military doesn't get paid overtime. It's not as if the ships would have been sitting in port somewhere. They'd be out on patrols or training missions.

[customerserviceguy]

12. The military loves these excercises

They train to look for subs and cargo that may have been lost at sea, this is way more than just a training excercise, it's hero status for whichever country's military finds this plane.

However, nobody's going to search in Iran, and that's where I think it is, if not Pakistan...

[davidpdx]

13. I agree with what others have said

But some of it is the shitstorm China is threatening Malaysia with if they don't find out what happened. There are some political aspects to the whole thing in addition to the goal of finding out what happened to the plane. China has in the past "allowed" (encouraged) their citizens to protest at embassies of foreign countries and tear up the products of foreign countries (Toyota cars from Japan) over various disputes. All they have to do is give the go ahead and it will happen.