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posted by martyb on Thursday November 12 2015, @05:51PM   Printer-friendly
from the not-many-"landmarks"-at-sea dept.

World nations struck a landmark deal Wednesday on using satellites to track flights, which could prove key to preventing a repeat of the mysterious disappearance of flight MH370 in March 2014. Countries reached an accord at a conference hosted by the UN's International Telecommunication Union (ITU) that aimed to improve on the current civilian flight-tracking system which relies on ground-based radars.

"In reaching this agreement... ITU has responded in record time to the expectations of the global community on the major issue concerning global flight tracking," the organisation's secretary general, Houlin Zhao, said in a statement.

The ITU statement made clear the deal was driven by the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 which was lost en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people onboard. That tragedy "spurred worldwide discussions on global flight tracking and the need for coordinated action," the organisation said. Representatives of more than 160 nations attended the talks, known as the World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC).

http://phys.org/news/2015-11-world-nations-landmark-satellites-track.html

[Also Covered By]: Daily Mail


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 12 2015, @07:33PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 12 2015, @07:33PM (#262312)

    An airplane with all passengers and crew on-board were sacrificed in order for this global tracking to be made official. The disappearance of a flight has been blown out of proportion to be able to track everything that flies.

    As if their current tracking satellites weren't already tracking everything over and under the ground all the time...

    What is going to be tracked next globally through "coordinated international action"? Cars? People? Thoughts?

    This coordinated international action is the next minor step on the road to one-world government.

    Something smells funny in the way things are being done through "coordinated global action" to track you. For example: You fly a small plane to a small island in order to survive the zombie apocalypse or the coming revolution or whatever and you will be tracked and reported to their headquarters in real time and you and your plane will be blown out of the sky through "coordinated global action".

  • (Score: 1) by Francis on Thursday November 12 2015, @08:34PM

    by Francis (5544) on Thursday November 12 2015, @08:34PM (#262340)

    That's ridiculous, we all know that there was no plane. The "plane" was just a set on the sound stage next to the one they're prepping for when humans go to Mars.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 12 2015, @08:54PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 12 2015, @08:54PM (#262351)

    If you're not resourceful enough to disable your plane's ADS-B transmitter (or to avoid having one fitted), you may not be resourceful enough to survive in isolation on a small island. Although I suppose it takes all kinds.