Malaysia Seeking Help from India to Locate Missing Aircraft
Wednesday, March 12th, 2014 3:07:39 by Hunain Naseer
According to sources in India’s foreign ministry, Malaysia has now asked India for help in locating their missing aircraft.
“Malaysia and India are in contact on this since yesterday and contact points are being discussed. These contact points will ascertain what assistance is required and what India can offer,” revealed a spokesperson.
The areas India would be looking at have not been decided yet but the country has a large military presence in Andaman and Nicobar islands along with navy patrols in the straits of Malacca.
Search for the missing Malaysian jet has spread to an international level and has been mainly focused around the Gulf of Thailand. However, the Strait of Malacca has also been made part of the search area from Sunday onwards.
10 countries have been engaged in the search operations as navy vessels, military aircrafts, helicopters, civilian and coast guard apparatus has been in motion without any results.
The plane’s disappearance is still a mystery as investigators look at every possible angle. According to Malaysian police, background checks are being made on passengers and the possibilities of hijacking and sabotage are kept open.
“Maybe somebody on the flight has bought a huge sum of insurance, who wants family to gain from it or somebody who has owed somebody so much money, you know, we are looking at all possibilities,” shared Khalid Abu Bakar, the Malaysian police chief.
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Posted by Hunain Naseer
on Mar 12 2014. Filed under Latest News, World.
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Why are we still relying on primitive broadcast transponder technology and even more primitive radar to keep track of commercial aircraft?
For years now we’ve had the technology for live system data communications between the aircraft and the base on the ground. This allows us to automatically check critical systems and forewarn the crew of developing problems.
Indeed, we can even take over failing systems to assure the safety of the passengers and the crew.
If we can have complete telemetry and control of a rover in Mars we should also have telemetry of commercial airplanes and ships on Earth. The technology is there, and not prohibitively expensive. But we need to set up monitoring servers worldwide that can be accessed securely by the control towers.
This coordination starts with the U.N., and it should set out to do it.