Jim Hall and Peter Goelz : Why losing a Boeing 777 , or any other jet , must never happen again . Comment: All ETOPS aircraft ( certified for extended overwater flight ) need to be connected to a `` handshake '' monitoring service offered by Boeing , Airbus or the major engine manufacturers or to some other commercial service like the Automated Flight Information Reporting System that tracks the aircraft at all times . The plane was carrying passengers from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it crashed into the sea off Indonesia on Saturday afternoon. The technology to better track aircraft exists and must be deployed now , they argue .
Jim Hall and Peter Goelz : Why losing a Boeing 777 , or any other jet , must never happen again . Comment: The plane was carrying passengers from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it crashed into the sea off Indonesia on Saturday afternoon. The technology to better track aircraft exists and must be deployed now , they argue .