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Re: Malaysia Airlines 777 engines pinged satellites after loss of radar

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On 2014-03-14, 2phar <none@example.com> wrote:
> On 3/14/2014 8:47 AM, 2phar wrote:
>> "Communications satellites picked up faint electronic pulses from
>> Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 after it went missing on Saturday
>
> But now apparently they didn't
>
> "http://news.airwise.com/story/view/1394800413.html"
>

This case is so interesting.  My money is still on hijacking, at the
moment.  What's interesting to me isn't the whole terrorism angle but
how many weaknesses it has exposed in systems that are supposed to be
reliable - conflicting reports from military and observers, missing
data, bad records, etc.  "How can this happen in 2014" says the article
I posted over at m.n.i.d.  Go live in a place like Malaysia or Senegal
and get to know how they do business and you find this is no surprise at
all.

I used to live in Indonesia in the early 90s, and once caught a ride on
a copra freighter traveling between the islands.  "These guys must be
awesome mariners," I thought, so I was excited for a look around the
cockpit when invited.  To my astonishment, they were navigating with
nothing better than a pack of cigarettes, a ballpoint pen, and a
photocopy of a chart made by the Dutch prior to WWI.  No radar, no
lights (hardly), no sextant, no leadline, just a pack of smokes and a
whole lot of Inshallah.  

You've got a whole bunch of officials supposed to be on the ball over
there, that probably aren't on the ball at all.

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Malaysia Airlines 777 engines pinged satellites after loss of radar 2phar <none@example.com> - 2014-03-14 08:47 -0400
  Re: Malaysia Airlines 777 engines pinged satellites after loss of radar 2phar <none@example.com> - 2014-03-14 09:00 -0400
    Re: Malaysia Airlines 777 engines pinged satellites after loss of radar RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-14 19:52 +0000
  Re: Malaysia Airlines 777 engines pinged satellites after loss of radar Michael Bachmann <michael.bachmann1978@gmail.com> - 2014-03-14 10:50 -0700
    Re: Malaysia Airlines 777 engines pinged satellites after loss of radar Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-03-14 22:32 +0000

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