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After the baffling disappearance in March of Flight MH370, critics accused the aviation industry of "dithering" over equipping jets with real-time tracking systems. Now, with another passenger plane lost, the call for action is becoming more insistent.
Tracking aircraft by satellite and live-streaming of black box data were cited as top priorities by industry insiders after the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 with 239 people on board. Its fate remains a mystery despite a long underwater search west of Australia. Members of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)—the UN's aviation body—agreed in the aftermath of the incident to mandate real-time tracking.
But they did not set a timeline as airlines mulled the additional costs involved. Many carriers have been losing money for years. Now, with the apparent loss of AirAsia Flight QZ8501 on Sunday off Indonesia, the calls for immediate changes have returned with vehemence.
http://phys.org/news/2014-12-airasia-fuels-real-time-tracking.html
[Related]: http://www.airtrafficmanagement.net/2014/12/iata-no-silver-bullet-solution-on-tracking-in-wake-of-mh370/
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Wednesday December 31 2014, @12:30AM
Why do these things keep disappearing in that area?
Which area? MH370 went wrong over 1,200 miles away. 1200 miles is a large area, about the size of the contiguous U.S. [gcmap.com]
MH17 went wrong about 5,000 miles away from MH370, which is the same as saying that Washington and Moscow are "in the same area"
Is there cell coverage there?
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=a%20map [lmgtfy.com]
You're asking if there's cell coverage 50 miles off shore? No, GSM doesn't work that way.
Are the disapperances connected?
Yes, MH17, MH370, and QZ8501 were all planes, and all had bad things happen in 2014. 2 of them were owned by a malaysian firm. The other was sort-of mostly-partially owned by a malaysian firm.
Did they learn from the last two and decide to scatter some stuff to find this time?
MH17 had plenty to find, as it was shot down over a field. Journalists were picking through luggage live on TV :(
Could the planes be in flyable condition somewhere?
Yes, http://www.channelnewsasia.com/blob/1270024/1405628401000/mh17-crash8-data.jpg [channelnewsasia.com]
Were there any Motorola engineers or Patent Holders on Board?
On a budget airline flight from a secondary Indonesian city to the regional hub at 5AM? Yes, sounds like just the type of plane that high fliying execs would take.
Where did the planes really go?
MH17 ended up in a field in eastern ukraine. By all means argue if it was shot down by Russia, Ukrainian Rebels, Ukraine, or the U.S, but it was shot down.
QZ8501 ended up at the bottom of the sea near Borneo.
God knows about MH370, most likely in the indian ocean.
Were the transponders disabled like on 9/11?
Are you still beating your wife?
Wouldn't any other tracker be disabled also?
Can I avoid flying to SE Asia?
No, it's a law that nutters have to fly to south east asia.
Am I a conspiricay theorist?
Do you even need that answered?
That is just as plausable as the possible answers you don't like.
What don't I like? A massive global conspiracy involving multiple nations, thousands of people, and it's all been kept hidden by the lamestream media, and the truth is only known to a few basement-dwelling lardarses?
Why does nobody go after this stuff? Because they would lose their job.
Yes, there's noone willing to go after this stuff because they'd lose their job. Manning, Assange, Snowden, they all kept quiet because they were worried about losing their jobs..