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Originally Posted by Seahawk
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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Seahawk, certainly respect your opinion. So are you implying that a clandestine rescue or recovery is under way and for whatever reason the public is not being updated. Do you believe the US govt is not sharing all they know? Why wouldn't the Navy be aware of an unidentified aircraft traveling erratically over the Indian Ocean? Seems very strange to me.