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EgyptAir 804 Disappears Over Mediterranean
- aerovistae 10y agoSomeone on reddit pointed out this happened exactly 804 days after Malaysia Airlines 370 vanished. Weird coincidence.
- fuddle 10y agoLets wait for a few days before coming to any strange conclusions.
- cm2187 10y agoA volunteer to take BA 1 flight LCY to SNN departing in 3 hours?
- venomsnake 10y agoWhat is the significance of 804?
- nfd 10y agoIt's the number of this flight that just vanished.
- venomsnake 10y agoThe Mediterranean is more of a small lake compared to the Indian ocean. So this one will be found.
- verandaguy 10y agoLook at the size of the search regions in the Indian Ocean and along the Australian coast in response to Malaysian 340's disappearance. Those are relative small lakes compared to the entire Indian Ocean, but they're still massive swaths of water. Don't underestimate the difficulty of a SAR operation, especially at sea.
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- coffeecheque 10y agoI could have missed something, but wasn't it 803 days? https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=days+between+8+March+2014+and+19th+may+2016 https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=days+between+8+March+2...
- jupenur 10y agoMH370 was March 8 Malaysian time but March 7 UTC.
- jgrahamc 10y agoPlease stop. Oh wait. Flight number is 804: 8 + 0 + 4 = 12 66 people aboard: 6 + 6 = 12 Must mean something!
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- tallerholler 10y ago12 / 2 = 6 str('66') + str('6') = '666' it's the devil.
- raddad 10y agoCould someone have moved the Bermuda Triangle? Or find another one?
- hughes 10y agoWhy is it that we can track boats with satellites but not planes? In fact we have a complete image[1] of boat activity in the area at the time of disappearance. It seems as crazy to me as how we can offer in-flight satellite-based wifi but not GPS tracking. [1] http://i.imgur.com/XYvC5gI.jpg http://i.imgur.com/XYvC5gI.jpg
- Neil44 10y agoBoats are tracked by their AIS beacons on board, not passively by radar. The beacons can be switched off or stop working just the same as the beacons on planes.
- cm2187 10y agoLike another commentor here I don't have a huge amount of trust in early media reports but what I read was that it was within radar range when it disapeared.
- kevinnk 10y agoThose boats are presumably sending a signal that allows them to be tracked. When we "lose" a plane, it stops sending its tracking signal.
- kalleboo 10y agoYou have a complete image of flight activity in the area as well (see flightradar24). No doubt the plane crashed.
- kyriakos 10y agolets also not forget that there is a substantial presence of military fleets in the area, all equipped with radars etc if it was anything other than a crash they'd have noticed.
- gchadwick 10y agoThe article says it disappears from radar. When tracking aeroplanes there are two kinds of radar primary and secondary. Primary is actual radar, secondary isn't really radar at all but instead radio transmission of telemetry such as position, altitude, speed etc. This is equivalent to AIS, the system used to track boats that produced your image. So we were tracking the plane but then the plane stopped transmitting tracking info for some reason (no idea if they even had it on primary radar). Someone could have turned it off or the plane could have crashed.
- JumpCrisscross 10y agoStarting my 48-hour media blackout around this topic. If I've learned one thing from trying to follow aviation incidents, it's that almost everything popularly reported in the hours after the incident is either wrong or lacking important context.
- riffraff 10y agoReddit's live page on this is a surprisingly good source for up to date infos on this. https://www.reddit.com/live/wy0st0j6out0 https://www.reddit.com/live/wy0st0j6out0
- yread 10y agoAvHerald is always a good source for factual information that doesn't include rumors and speculations http://www.avherald.com/h?article=4987fb09&opt=0 http://www.avherald.com/h?article=4987fb09&opt=0
- CarolineW 10y agoAs always - never read the comments.