So in the last week or so they've been studying the Doppler effect as well as comparing the ping signal to other known flight paths and have determined it's the south corridor, but its not very accurate at all, so still a massive search area.
'Contact lost' with Malaysia Airlines plane
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so are they ever going to find out why the plane ended up traveling in the opposite direction with nowhere to land?
How come it took them this long? I mean you either have the information or you don't.
Inmarast had the north / south corridor info, available and handed over to Malaysian government on the Sunday after the crash. They ignored it and even continued to focus the search in the South China Sea. Once they started listening (about the pings and the arc corridors), they wanted further information. Inmarsat obliged but it's taken them a while to get the analysis confirmed.
Very sad news but I think they had to draw a line under it, at least for now until something is found. People underestimate the sheer size of the search area, it's like looking for a needle in a haystack.
It would be nice to at least know why it went off course, but there are plenty of plausible explanations for that.
Unfortunately though, this will just drive the crazy conspiracy theories even more. Then again, they already had stupid theories prepared in the event they found the wreckage, so we should just ignore them as usual.
They ignored it? Foolish.
It would be nice to at least know why it went off course, but there are plenty of plausible explanations for that.
Unfortunately though, this will just drive the crazy conspiracy theories even more. Then again, they already had stupid theories prepared in the event they found the wreckage, so we should just ignore them as usual.
They ignored it? Foolish.
Depends of they fond the black boxes.
The other interesting thing, with the interview with Inmarsat. Is that airlines traveling over the north Atlantic are already mandated to send location, speed and direction information every 15mins and if this was mandated for the rest of the world, this would be dragging on into the third week. And it can be made to work instantly, airliners just have to pay for the service.
According to this article it says the ACARS can be turned off with one swtich: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolo...ished-and-how-it-could-have-been-avoided.html
Weren't we all told previously turning off ACARS was a fairly complex process and not simply the flick of a switch?
Weren't we all told previously turning off ACARS was a fairly complex process and not simply the flick of a switch?
They were using apple maps obv m8
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From what I've read the Inmarsat guys pretty smart cookies
. And the Malaysian authorities are the opposite.And what they've found is what IMHO should have been found by the military/civil radars, and possibly even the Miliitary spy satellites. Not relying on a British telephone company to find it!
until that latest press conf this actually seemed like an interesting find...
www.txttoad.com/MalaysianAirlines370.htm
www.txttoad.com/MalaysianAirlines370.htm
and in English, not Chinese.
Stumbling around in the dark....
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I find that quite funny, they are ridiculously blurry images and they have somehow attributed them to air plane parts. Although the one is kind of the shape of a cockpit, however I imagine it's shaped too well considering it has meant to crashed into the sea. Plus it's also a similar shape to a boat.