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Either way, though, the advance of technology may mean that it is the last such mystery. As the oceans are watched with ever closer scrutiny, from space and the
by ern 9y ago
Either way, though, the advance of technology may mean that it is the last such mystery. As the oceans are watched with ever closer scrutiny, from space and the depths, it is increasingly difficult for anything to get lost in the first place.
Have things changed this much since 2014? What would happen if the exact same scenario happened again (airliner switches off all transponders and veers off course into an ocean) in 2018?
- manojlds 9y agoYeah, you would think this happened in the the last century or something. It was just 3 years ago!
- jccooper 9y agoThey haven't changed much yet, but the Iridium Next constellation has hosted ADS-B payloads (as well as AIS). Sometime in 2018 these will be available globally, and make it much harder for either ships or planes to be lost outside the range of land-based receivers. That wouldn't help intentionally or accidentally disabled transceivers as was (probably) the case for MH370. That would require space based radar... which was once but is no longer a DoD project. It'll happen eventually.