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The Sounds of a Useful Silence

Steve Scott

Monday, May 14th, 2007

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The Mind-numbing Distraction of Cascading Aural Warnings When Kenya Airways Flight 507 went missing in the early morning of Saturday, May 5, a search was initially mounted 250 kilometers (156 miles and 25 minutes) away from its 0005L takeoff point of Douala, along its eastward track towards Nairobi Kenya. The six-month-old 737-800 (5Y-KYA) was assumed down along UA610, i.e. below its flight-planned upper airways track. This search locale was predicated on an erroneously plotted brief Emergency Locator Transmitter (ELT) satellite…

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