Timeline for How can a computer model yield two possible flight paths of MH370 in South Indian Ocean?
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| Jul 19, 2014 at 20:49 | comment | added | user2357 | Whilst I fully get the logic you have described and described very well thank you, you also hit the nail on the head that it depends upon having the correct last known location for MH370. A so called military radar image by Malaysia which claims to show the track of MH370 through the Straits of Malacca from Butterworth is a fake. The actual radar is a Thales Raytheon GM400 which has a screen with a black background, not amber. The image people rely on is actually a screen from a civilian SSR radar which could not track an aircraft without a transponder. Hoax | |
| Mar 19, 2014 at 22:50 | history | edited | Thunderstrike | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 19, 2014 at 22:30 | comment | added | Thunderstrike | @Lnafziger since the article describes the aircraft sent out a signal every hour, they should be able to estimate the direction and speed. i'm not sure if there's doppler shift, but i think they might be able to see a linear behaviour between arc radius and speed, and the path. | |
| Mar 19, 2014 at 22:21 | comment | added | Thunderstrike | @user1968963 yes, of course, but the article states that there was a signal every hour, so they should be able to estimate the speed, and with the time to distance to get the intersection point :) | |
| Mar 19, 2014 at 22:20 | comment | added | Thunderstrike | @MartinVegter imho, the increase in the distance increase between the lines from malaysia is pretty constant if you were to extrapolate the line. The difference might be caused by the uncertainty in the satellite instruments where it was last seen. | |
| Mar 19, 2014 at 21:33 | comment | added | user1968963 | even if you have one fixed point where the plane was last seen by radar, how do you know which direction to draw the straight line to intersect the arc? There are infinitely many such solutions. You need some boundary conditions. | |
| Mar 19, 2014 at 21:26 | comment | added | Martin Vegter | and how do you explain that they have two possible paths, which seem to almost converge at the top ? | |
| Mar 19, 2014 at 21:23 | comment | added | Lnafziger | The only problem with this approach is that it assumes that the aircraft flew straight the entire time, and we have no reason to believe that this is the case. | |
| Mar 19, 2014 at 21:14 | history | answered | Thunderstrike | CC BY-SA 3.0 |