Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 Would Have Been Found If Communications Box Had $10 Upgrade
"When the plane was still missing on Sunday (the day after it disappeared), our engineers looked at the network data and realised that the plane had been sending signals," Inmarsat Senior Vice President Chris McLaughlin told IBTimes UK.
"We couldn't say what direction it had gone in, but the plane wasn't standing still because the signals were getting longer, i.e. further in distance from our satellite."
This I consider to be the first "official" statement, that
- distance data for all pings is available
- the penultimate ping came from a smaller distance than the last.
What I'm still wondering: Malaysians 772 business class is equipped with satphone. If this service was switched of deliberately, would there be anything in inmarsats logs indicating the point in time when this happened ?
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And here some more info on reconstructing the flight path (and the last ACARS burst):
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-0...estimates.html