[logi_cal869]

Full title: No more MH370s: Satellite firm which was used in search for missing plane offers low-cost tracking system to prevent another flight disappearing

Most brilliant product launch in history. /s

Tagline:

When you really, REALLY want to be gone: Inmarsat

or

We can track you, but being found is your problem

or

Close Encounters of the (ping) Kind

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[justlurking]

It wouldn't have helped flight 370.

If it's connected to the aircraft electrical system, it can still be turned off. There's a breaker somewhere, accessible to the pilots.

I read an analogy elsewhere that I thought was appropriate: Would you want an electrical circuit in your house that you couldn't turn off, especially if two rooms were full of jet fuel?

[Uncle Chip]

Notice how the meme here has shifted. The problem has shifted from the hijacking of the jet to the locating of the jet.

The crime of diverting the jet and murdering 238 people has taken a backseat to the technological issue of tracking the jet — as if the tracking of the jet would have prevented the hijacking.

Until they are willing to deal with the criminal hijacking part of this and what the criminal hijacker had in mind they may never find that plane.

[FreeAtlanta]

The black boxes need to be redesigned to up load their data every few second when communication is available.

[PLMerite]

“The British firm whose satellites helped track the final route of missing Malaysian Airlines airliner MH370...”

They should hold off on the bragging until it’s been proven they actually got even close to the real route.

[bigbob]

Just accelerate implementation of ADS-B

[DCBryan1]

Ham radio APRS or SATGENIE II