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So What Happened To The Plane?

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So What Happened To The Plane?
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RE: So What Happened To The Plane?
March 13, 2014 at 8:22 pm
(March 13, 2014 at 12:24 pm)Moros Synackaon Wrote: As a futher note, over the water even in ideal circumstances, there are few ground stations if any that can receive such data.

Very true. Radio communications are (mostly) restricted to line of sight (particularly VHF and UHF). Yeah, it's possible to bounce LF/VLF/ULF signals off of the ionosphere, but it is NOT reliable and aviation doesn't use *LF for good reason.

Absent a satellite uplink or some kind of repeater system, transoceanic flights will have significant periods of communications blackout. Whether that applies in this particular case, I have no idea.
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RE: So What Happened To The Plane?
March 13, 2014 at 8:26 pm
(March 13, 2014 at 2:25 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: Dharma, ftw!

Call Daniel Faraday at Oxford, he'll know what to do.
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RE: So What Happened To The Plane?
March 14, 2014 at 12:18 am
Interesting disclosure....

http://apnews.excite.com/article/2014031...4BP01.html

Quote: KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - A Malaysia Airlines plane sent signals to a satellite for four hours after the aircraft went missing, an indication that it was still flying for hundreds of miles or more, a U.S. official briefed on the search said Thursday.

Six days after the plane with 239 people aboard disappeared, Malaysian authorities expanded their search westward toward India, saying the aircraft may have flown for several hours after its last contact with the ground shortly after takeoff from Kuala Lumpur for Beijing.
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RE: So What Happened To The Plane?
March 14, 2014 at 12:19 am
Wait, I know what happened.

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RE: So What Happened To The Plane?
March 14, 2014 at 11:31 am (This post was last modified: March 14, 2014 at 11:33 am by Doubting Thomas.)
(March 13, 2014 at 8:22 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: Absent a satellite uplink or some kind of repeater system, transoceanic flights will have significant periods of communications blackout. Whether that applies in this particular case, I have no idea.

Wrong. Aircraft still use HF which easily bounces off the ionosphere. However, satellite communications will probably completely take over all HF communications, with perhaps HF as a backup.
(March 13, 2014 at 8:45 am)LostLocke Wrote: It's on an uncharted, remote island in the South Pacific.

And the passengers of the plane are sitting there getting Amelia Earhart up to date on what's happened in the world since 1937.
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RE: So What Happened To The Plane?
March 16, 2014 at 6:54 am
Maybe it was hijacked by Endemol and landed on an uninhabited island for a new reality TV show based on LOST.
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RE: So What Happened To The Plane?
March 16, 2014 at 7:00 am
(March 16, 2014 at 6:54 am)NoraBrimstone Wrote: Maybe it was hijacked by Endemol and landed on an uninhabited island for a new reality TV show based on LOST.

**endemol exec** Oh, you conspiracy theory nuts!!
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RE: So What Happened To The Plane?
March 25, 2014 at 11:37 am
The Daily Show returns.... and rips the "news" media a new asshole!

http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/6lqtfn...flight-370
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RE: So What Happened To The Plane?
March 25, 2014 at 11:51 am
(March 25, 2014 at 11:37 am)Minimalist Wrote: The Daily Show returns.... and rips the "news" media a new asshole!

http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/6lqtfn...flight-370
Clicked your link and heard audio but did not see a video. Is that what was supposed to happen?
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RE: So What Happened To The Plane?
March 25, 2014 at 11:52 am (This post was last modified: March 25, 2014 at 11:56 am by Minimalist.)
Nope. The video is there when I click it.

Clicking on the video shows it to be an Adobe Flash 12.0 thingy.

Try going to the main site, click on the first video.

http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos
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