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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
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 12 2015, @07:50PM
It isn't about getting along. It is about those who want to remain in control (and want more control) and those who are controlled.
International elements benefit greatly from wars and conflict. Healthy populations with enough to eat and and maintain a decent living are hard to control. A population that gets just enough to eat to stay alive and barely gets by is less of a threat.
Wars and conflict are too important an opportunity to waste. If two peoples want to kill each other and become sacrificial lambs, give them the opportunity; no need to invade them in order to subjugate them.
If you are not an internationalist, then you are a victim of the parasitic internationalists.