With debris washing up now on Reunion, floating parts after a year on the Indian Ocean currents and countercurrents, putting the end of the flight possibly near Diego Garcia. better questions now possible as details emerge.
MAS370 - Was it a Remote Hijacking?
by fulltimestudent 23 Replies latest social current
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truthseeker100
Did anyone see 60 minutes tonight? There was a big story all about US satellites and the Chinese governments efforts to shoot them down. A prominent US General made it very clear that they can track even a very small fishing boat anywhere on the planet.
Doesn't it seem strange that they couldn't track a huge airliner? Something just doesn't seem right.
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prologos
It was remote (from US and a highjacking, taking controls to fly toward a new target by someone on board. -
DJS
ts100,
"Can" track and tracks are two completely different things. New satellites have the ability to maintain situational awareness of their coverage area (potentially thousands of miles in diameter) while at the same time having some ability to 'see' objects upon review.
But to track individual objects to the degree necessary to follow a plane for example you have to first know what that object is and train the satellite on it in real time. With thousands of planes in the air at any one time, not to mention the boats, subs, ships, etc. the ability to closely track a single item, although improving, isn't there yet. And it is a certainty that the satellites are tracking Russian subs and such, not commercial airplanes.
In other words, the current satellites probably have the ability to track a large area, with the ability to zoom in on selected areas after the fact, looking at recorded images. Getting better, but with limitations. So what the general said is technically correct, with some technological limitations at the moment.
And prologos, I see you couldn't resist jumping in with the conspiracy theories. Close to Diego Garcia may be accurate as long as you are considering 2 - 3,000 miles as close. The only real data and evidence has come from satellite pings of the plane's final route. The anticipated ocean current flow, based on the Australian experts (people with PhDs - not an Internet account in mommy's basement) projected that, based on its projected crash site, parts of the plane were most likely to show up in Reunion Island or W. Africa about 1 1/2 years after the crash, which is exactly what has occurred.
All of the conspiracy theories -and there have been many - have been to this point dispelled by actual data.