COO of Int'l Bureau of Aviation a moron?

[Abernathy]

I remember reading this quote several times after they located the AF447 black boxes.

Phil Seymour, chief operating officer of the International Bureau of Aviation, a British aviation consultancy, said: "I remain skeptical about how useful this device (memory unit) will be. If you were to throw a computer into the ocean imagine how all the parts would eventually split and you have the corrosive effects of seawater and the depths involved

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Does the Chief Operating Officer of an International Aviation Bureau think that black boxes are basically a couple of Dell laptops?

 

[Raoul Duke]

they're not???

 

[Flyby1206]

Big drama between Airbus and Air France- so maybe this guy is setting the stage for "the black box is too corroded for any useful data recovery, therefore, we will never know the real cause of the crash (and nobody can be held liable)"