Link to actual report: <a href="http://mh370.mot.gov.my/MH370SafetyInvestigationReport.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://mh370.mot.gov.my/MH370SafetyInvestigationReport.pdf</a>
I wonder when are we going to have some low resolution (good enough to spot a car) realtime recording of the full globe. I know it's tons of data but with some machine learning it should be possible to skip most of oceans forests and deserts (unless some unusual object appears in that area).
> MH370’s cargo included 221 kilograms (487 pounds) of lithium batteries and 4.6 tons of fresh mangosteen fruit, according to its manifest. After extensive tests, Monday’s report ruled out smoke or fire caused by those goods mixing in the plane’s hold as a cause of the tragedy.<p>Wait, what do the mangosteen fruit have to do with anything?
I hope the plane and remains of passengers are found during lifetime of the victim's families so they may have some closure to this tragic chapter.
Question: do they "retire" flight numbers after a crash?<p>I keep seeing mentions of famous crashes by their flight number alone like MH370 or AF447.
Is there a technological limitation that makes constant location broadcasting infeasible somehow? I was very surprised that they're not constantly in location contact.
I wondered why they didn't go for a mesh network where planes transmit location data over short wave to any other planes in the "area". They would only need to keep the data for a relatively short period of time before considering the data unneeded. Even in the Indian Ocean, there are usually planes within a few hundred miles that should be able to receive the broadcasts?
<a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/02/jeff-wise-mh370-theory.html" rel="nofollow">http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/02/jeff-wise-mh370...</a><p>this was published 3 years ago, but he came to a similar conclusion. really in depth dive as to the systems that could have been 'manipulated'
<i>We are unable to determine with any certainty the reasons that the aircraft diverted from its filed planned route,” Kok Soo Chon, chief inspector of the MH370 investigation team, told reporters in Putrajaya, outside Kuala Lumpur. “The possibility of intervention by a third party cannot be excluded.”</i><p>Which 3rd party? And why? Did someone try to steal the plane, maybe?
IIRC the planes now ping the satellite every 15 (or 5?) minutes instead of 60.<p>So hopefuly the next time this happens the search area would be smaller.
Could someone explain why the obvious explanation that "maybe they sweeped the right spots of the ocean, but at the wrong time" seems to go almost entirely unconsidered? i.e., I was always imagining what if the plane was in motion at the time they were sweeping so that they missed it?