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I spent an hour this morning looking at digital aviation maps of the "corridors" the news outlets were talking about the jet could have flown.
There are, when I stopped counting, over a three hundred places for the plane to safely land in a seven hour arc. I am sure folks are en route to them.
The most interesting thing to me is the lack of real world radar tapes of the aircraft. The IFF/Transponder is fine, but tracking a 777 with radar isn't exactly hard especially since the whole air traffic grid would have been alerted as soon as the flight goes silent with the IFF/Transponder.
I can't imagine a scenario where the route controllers, after losing flight 318, don't alert everyone.
Also, the USN: Tracking a 777 with Aegis is like OldE and I exchanging flashlight beams at three feet
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