How a UK firm ... used a nineteenth century mathematical model to track missing flight MH370

The Daily Mail Online ^ | March 24, 2014 | MARK DUELL and CANDACE SUTTON IN PERTH and JAMES RUSH and LEON WATSON and TED THORNHILL

[Uncle Chip]

'A shot in the dark'

A private British satellite company used a wave phenomenon discovered in the nineteenth century to analyse the seven pings its satellite picked up from Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 and determine its tragic final destination.

The new findings led Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak to conclude that the Boeing 777 ... crashed thousands of miles away in the southern Indian Ocean ....

Radar pings from MH370, automatically transmitted every hour from the aircraft after the rest of its communications systems had stopped, indicated it continued flying for hours after it disappeared from its flight path from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

From the time the signals took to reach the satellite, belonging to the UK firm Inmarsat, and the angle of elevation, Inmarsat was able to provide two arcs, one north and one south that the aircraft could have taken.

Inmarsat's scientists then interrogated the faint pings using a technique based on the Doppler effect, which describes how a wave changes frequency relative to the movement of an observer, in this case the satellite, a spokesman said.

He said: 'We took Malaysian 777 airline data and modeled that against the northern and southern path and what we discovered was that the path to the south is undoubtedly the one taken.'

Asked why it took so long, he said: 'We have been dealing with a totally new area, we have been trying to help an investigation based on a single signal once and hour from an aircraft that didn't include any GPS data or any time and distance information so this really was a bit of a shot in the dark and it is to the credit of our scientific team that they managed to model this.'...

[Star Traveler]

LOL ...

[Cementjungle]

My cat and I devised a formula which helped us calculate that the plane is on the bottom of Lake Michigan.

Prove us wrong.

[Nip]

Take off the Western tinted glasses and try looking at it from a radical Islamic view.

We aren’t dealing with Western pilots. Western trained yes, but a few months, or even years, of training will not counter the training received during a person’s first five years of life. The term you see in a few of the older education texts is “primacy of training”.

Culturally this means the framework within all other activity is evaluated and acted upon.

[hoosiermama]

Not MEOW. In 24-48 hours!

[mulder1]

Does anyone really believe that in the era of the hubble telescope, G.P.S. tracking and spy satellites that can read a license plate from space, that all the governments of the world couldn't track or find a 300 foot airliner equipped with satellite technology? In the words of “INMARSAT” “NOT LIKELY”