Re: Six miles and two days

Posted by oldtanker on December 31, 2014 at 05:47:22 from (64.118.3.75):

In Reply to: Six miles and two days posted by MarkB_MI on December 31, 2014 at 04:49:08:

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Mark I never said it went into areas with dry land, only that they showed a map of where it could have gone.

As far as "good" radar is concerned. We developed and deployed a missile in the early 80's, no stealth stuff here that is still being used today called the Tomahawk/Cruise missile. It get to a target by flying low enough to avoid radar. In the mid 80's the 2 countries with the best radar and most coverage was the US and Soviet Union. A kid in Germany took off in a light airplane from Germany and landed undetected in Red Square.

That area of the world actually has pretty poor radar systems depending on the country and large areas with no radar coverage at all (large ocean areas).

MH370 apparently dropped low enough to avoid radar after the last radio contact. They did know the last direction of travel when contact was lost but they have no idea what way it went after it disappeared from radar or how long it stayed in the air. Whoever was flying it may have turned 180 degrees from last contact. I really don't think it went over any main land area at low altitude because people on the ground would have noticed it and it would have been reported by now. To reach Pakistan or Krakistan would have required flying over India at 500 feet or so. Heavily populated India. Most of the South East Asia area is also heavily populated too. So I'm sure it's in the water someplace. Just may not be in the Indian Ocean. Could be in the south west Pacific area too. Last known direction of travel and actual direction of travel may not even be close.

The entire airline industry fights adding anything to an aircraft that ads weight. Extra weight cost them money and cuts into bottom line. As long as they can lobby congress they will fight it. I don't agree with the system but that's how it is. They could mount existing systems that would allow any commercial aircraft to be tracked via satellite anywhere in the world. Wouldn't have to survive a crash. Just be able to track. Once they know where a plane went down they can recover the black boxes to help figure out what happened. Heck if they programed a system right it could transmit flight data and cockpit voice. It could then be digitally compressed to minimize storage and saved or programed to be deleted at say 2 weeks. Then recovering the black boxes wouldn't be a big deal.

Rick

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