McLauchlin is the official Inmarsat spokesman.
I'll just leave these here without comment:
McLauchlin (to Bloomberg):
The plane flew steadily away from the satellite over the equator while pinging, McLaughlin said.
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McLauchlin(to IBTimes):
"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."
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