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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
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RE: So What Happened To The Plane?
March 14, 2014 at 12:19 am
Wait, I know what happened.

ALIENS
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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
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RE: So What Happened To The Plane?
March 25, 2014 at 11:51 am
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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.)
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