Originally Posted by
kenjaDROP
@papershuffler
It would be better if it did, but, in a way, it doesn't have to include identity, if you think about it. If, after all the data analysis, the sat monitoring of the pings produced the track of an aircraft (carrying the capability to ping this system), non-identifiable*, in this region, then you could take a fair guess it could be MH370.
*non-identifiable via passive radar/ATC, that is.
It would *have* to include some kind of identifiable information. To distinguish transceiver a from transceiver b, some time of unique hardware address would have to be included in every frame sent between the satellite and the earth station.
The real question is, was it logged (most likely if they have logs of the pings, they have the logs of the hardware address) and do Malaysia Airlines, Boeing, Inmarsat (or whoever the satellite company is), and the manufacturer of the electronics have records that can match the unique hardware address to the missing plane. At the level it seems they're tracing this, it almost definitely wouldn't have the plane's tail number or serial number, it would be something similar to a MAC address in a computer or tablet.