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Malaysia Airlines Didn't Spend $10 on Upgrade That May Have Found Missing Plane
Evidence suggests that Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, which disappeared from the skies almost two weeks ago after taking off in Kuala Lumpur carrying 239 passengers, may have been found by now if the company had upgraded its aircraft data-streaming with a system called Swift 64
Flight MH370's normal means of communication — a transponder and the Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System — went dead, but Swift 64 sends location data to satellites regardless of whether the regular systems are functioning. Swift 64 was embedded on the plane, according to the Washington Post, but not in the advanced form that provides satellites with information such as speed, fuel consumption, engine performance, direction and altitude at regular intervals Read more...
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