Delta rewards eight-year-old for air crash recovery idea

Young boy shared idea for system to locate planes lost at sea in charming letter to US airline

Delta Airlines received an idea about how to track planes lost at sea from an eight-year-old boy Photo: Consumerist

An eight-year-old boy's charming letter to Delta Airlines, outlining a system to help find planes that crash at sea, has earned him a response from the company's CEO - and a whole heap of airline goodies.

The youngster called Ben wrote to Richard Anderson, CEO of the US airline, after watching a television programme Why Planes Disappear, which covered the mystery of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

His idea featured "neon orange balloons that rise up to the surface when the plane crashes in the sea", consumerist.com reported. "The balloon wouldn't be light enough to float up into the air, and it would have reinforced rubber to withstand a lot of pressure," Ben explained. "And put an RF transmitters in the balloon to locate it."

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