<a href="https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/QFA63/history/20250114/2240Z/YSSY/FAOR" rel="nofollow">https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/QFA63/history/202501...</a><p>This is one of the more remote flights humanity operates. What even are the diversion points on this route, McMurdo airfield?<p>I'm not an Elon shrill but this seems as an ideal place for SpaceX to be re-entering things as they can choose with minimal damage to ecosystems.
The solution here is for Spacex to tighten up their planned reentry corridors. At this point they should have more than enough experience in their ops to narrow down the likely debris field to a narrow strip that can be easily flown around instead of the huge swath of Indian Ocean they'd been allowing for.
Sounds like tracking would help. If the re-entry is controlled, why not broadcast transponder info from the reentering parts so they appear on airplane displays? Then they can adjust course, just as they do any other aircraft in their flight path.
The odds of damage are essentially 0 even if there was no diversion. The background risk of a plane crashing with mechanical failures may dwarf this risk.<p>It's hard to emphasize how comically vast the region described is. Its like... shooting two marbles across Manhattan and colliding.