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> We lost a jumbo jet to the ocean and were unable to find it because we did not have worldwide coverage. This does not appear to be a correct statement. The
by paranoidrobot 5y ago
> We lost a jumbo jet to the ocean and were unable to find it because we did not have worldwide coverage.
This does not appear to be a correct statement.
The jet was in contact with satellites, and was well within the coverage area. This is how the Inmarsat technicians were able to provide information about the possible flight path. [1]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370_satellite_communications#Satellite_datalink https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370_s...
- aeternum 5y agoThis is where cost and bandwidth matter. If you have satellite coverage but can't afford or don't have the bandwidth to continually stream GPS position and other metrics then it's not very useful. It's pretty ridiculous we don't stream blackbox data in realtime in instead record it locally like it's still the 1950s.