Timeline for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370? [closed]
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| Apr 2, 2014 at 1:56 | comment | added | Tadashi | A nice article about it: plus.maths.org/content/searching-answers | |
| Mar 27, 2014 at 11:24 | history | closed |
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| Mar 27, 2014 at 8:27 | history | edited | Charles Matthews | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 26, 2014 at 9:21 | comment | added | Neil Strickland | There is now some reasonably detailed information at mh370.dca.gov.my/information-provided-to-mh370-by-aaib (found via Wikipedia) | |
| Mar 25, 2014 at 16:51 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Mar 25, 2014 at 14:39 | history | edited | Ricardo Andrade |
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| Mar 25, 2014 at 14:14 | comment | added | username | The altitude of the plane is clearly negligible. No more than 10km, compared to 36 000 km for the satellite: less than 0.03%. You can mollify it by the curvature of the earth, but considering where the satellite is compared to the plane, the altitude still does not matter much. To get the pings 'en route' they had to remove all other pings, I guess | |
| Mar 25, 2014 at 10:26 | history | edited | Charles Matthews | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 25, 2014 at 9:18 | comment | added | Waldemar | Related: aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/2623/… | |
| Mar 25, 2014 at 7:59 | comment | added | Neil Strickland | I suspect that there is no very simple story here. If I understand correctly, the pings were infrequent, and none was received by more than one satellite. I have not seen any clear statement of what data was logged by Inmarsat, which is crucial to understand the possible methods. Reports suggest that the Doppler effect was used somehow, so they must have some kind of frequency data. I also read that Inmarsat built a complex model based on a large dataset of pings from other flights an "did a couple of years worth of research in two weeks". | |
| Mar 25, 2014 at 7:52 | comment | added | Alex Becker | Keep in mind that ping times are probably a very unreliable method of determining distance; they are probably intended for measuring network latency, so incorporate unpredictable delays in processing on both the plane and satellite's ends. | |
| Mar 25, 2014 at 7:44 | history | asked | Charles Matthews | CC BY-SA 3.0 |