Posted on 03/14/2014 2:05:18 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The story of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is one of the most bizarre we've seen in the air travel industry in the 21st century. With all the tracking devices on our phones, in our cars and aboard our airplanes, how is a large jet and hundreds of passengers able to vanish off the map?
It's not unprecedented, even in the last decade. Here are five other aircraft disappearances that puzzled the world, leaving no sign of its whereabouts for days, months or even years.
(Excerpt) Read more at weather.com ...
It’s not a philosophy, it’s a fact and simple physics.
Cellphones would have been useless on this flight, and as for Iridium, while I’ve used one before, it wasn’t from inside the cabin of a 777. Might work just fine, but those phones are specialized and fairly rare. Coming from cosmopolitan KL and headed to massive Beijing, it’s unlikely anyone on board would have had one. This flight was not going from BFE to Timbuktu, remember.
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