Timeline for Was heat or thermal equipment used during search and rescue efforts for Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571?
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| Jan 13 at 20:58 | comment | added | Michael Hall | I edited to remove the unsubstantiated presumption that it was NOT used. Matt, if you know for certain that wasn't used please feel free to roll back my edit, but we'd like to ask that you provide enough information showing it wasn't to justify the original wording. | |
| Jan 13 at 20:56 | history | edited | Michael Hall | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Edited to remove unsubstantiated presumption that it was not used.
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| Jan 12 at 16:55 | comment | added | Ralph J♦ | I think the suggestion that the Uruguayan military had thermal or IR cameras in 1972 is extremely dubious. Without support for that assertion, the question makes no sense. | |
| Jan 12 at 15:10 | comment | added | Giacomo Catenazzi | Also such technologies were often very expensive and only army could have them (and it requires trained personal). I assume it was not the priority of the South American armies/air forces to get such technology (and if they had, probably it was used on navy) | |
| Jan 12 at 12:56 | comment | added | GdD | Your premise is incorrect, although there were some examples of thermal imaging cameras in the early 70s the technology wasn't very good, it wasn't until the 80s that it improved enough for this type of use case. | |
| Jan 12 at 6:08 | history | edited | Amazon Dies In Darkness | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 12 at 6:07 | comment | added | CatchAsCatchCan | How do you know such equipment wasn't used? | |
| Jan 12 at 6:07 | history | edited | Amazon Dies In Darkness |
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| Jan 12 at 6:06 | comment | added | Amazon Dies In Darkness | What was the ambient temperature in the area of S&R efforts? AFAIK, thermal imaging equipment is not very effective for certain types of S&R when the ambient temperature is above a certain threshold. This was likely even more true 51 years ago. | |
| Jan 12 at 2:03 | history | edited | Mike Sowsun | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| S Jan 12 at 1:50 | history | asked | Matt Scherman | CC BY-SA 4.0 |