It's not even a trade off - if they detected an explosion the people were already dead, the only thing they'd be doing is save some time on search and rescue.
And every article also mentions that the USN told the USCG so the only trade-off is that the average joe learned 3 days after the fact that an implosion occurred.
Finding debris within 3 days of searching actually sounds really fast given how huge the ocean is, how crap cameras are underwater, and that the USCG has to travel to the area. The USN was probably actually extremely helpful for the USCG to find the remains so fast.
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I think the best parallel is the MH370 flight. There's now way will all these spy satellites a flight near China wasn't on some camera/radar the entire time but I bet the USG/partners knew the flight crashed at a high speed and so there's no survivors.
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It's not even a trade off - if they detected an explosion the people were already dead, the only thing they'd be doing is save some time on search and rescue.
And every article also mentions that the USN told the USCG so the only trade-off is that the average joe learned 3 days after the fact that an implosion occurred.
Finding debris within 3 days of searching actually sounds really fast given how huge the ocean is, how crap cameras are underwater, and that the USCG has to travel to the area. The USN was probably actually extremely helpful for the USCG to find the remains so fast.
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I think the best parallel is the MH370 flight. There's now way will all these spy satellites a flight near China wasn't on some camera/radar the entire time but I bet the USG/partners knew the flight crashed at a high speed and so there's no survivors.