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How It’s Possible to Lose an Airplane in 2014
In an era when we’ve all got GPS in our pockets, OnStar in our cars and the NSA tracking anyone, anywhere, it is still possible–although rare–for an airliner to seemingly vanish. (www.wired.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
I can see a nice Onion satire on this:
BREAKING NEWS: Fisherman pulls garbage out of the ocean. His debris recovery is covered all around the world, despite making no significant impact on the quantity of ocean borne flotsam in the world's oceans. Scientists perplexed why amounts of ocean garbage keeps increasing despite many highly publized retrievals of garbage lately, and suspect that humans may be poluting thier oceans with litter and debris at rates faster than the fisherman can keep up. Fisherman demands government subsidy for the ecologically sensitive work, after finding garbage in the ocean every day despite having picked up everything he had found each previous day. He's about ready to throw in the towel. He suspects the problem is insurmountable, and much bigger than any one man can can do anything meaningful about and decides to throw the garbage back in.
BREAKING NEWS: Fisherman pulls garbage out of the ocean. His debris recovery is covered all around the world, despite making no significant impact on the quantity of ocean borne flotsam in the world's oceans. Scientists perplexed why amounts of ocean garbage keeps increasing despite many highly publized retrievals of garbage lately, and suspect that humans may be poluting thier oceans with litter and debris at rates faster than the fisherman can keep up. Fisherman demands government subsidy for the ecologically sensitive work, after finding garbage in the ocean every day despite having picked up everything he had found each previous day. He's about ready to throw in the towel. He suspects the problem is insurmountable, and much bigger than any one man can can do anything meaningful about and decides to throw the garbage back in.
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Transponders can be turned off. Can ACARS transmissions be turned off?
There is a difference between publicly released information and data captured.
There may be good reasons for nondisclosure. Then again...
There is a difference between publicly released information and data captured.
There may be good reasons for nondisclosure. Then again...
Can the engine reporting to RR turned off?
How is it possible.... keep in mind that the GPS is for onboard use only, not transmitted away from the a/c. If the A/C goes dark, it is more difficult for ATC to track it. They would have to go to primary radar (back to the old days). 2ndly if they intentionally or unintentionally dropped below radar, then no one knows... It would be easier than most think to hide... Even being that size.
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Hopes for a breakthrough rose briefly when a group of fishermen found a life raft bearing the word “Boarding” 10 nautical miles from Port Dickson town at 12pm. Civil Aviation Department (DCA) head Azharuddin Abdul Rahman said two ships had been dispatched to investigate the sighting of the possible liferaft that could be a life raft, as it the hunt for the missing MH370 airplane continues.
5 Chinese Vessels Arrived at #MH370 Missing Site, China Rescuers Salvage Floating Object at #MH370 Missing Site AND MUCH MORE INSIDE THE STORY http://www.roomeetimes.com/missing-malaysia-airlines-flight-mh370-life-raft-found.html