Timeline for Why is there no alarm when the transponder is turned off?
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| Apr 2, 2014 at 1:26 | comment | added | Bret Copeland | @Gilligan, I have no idea what you're referring to when you say "On the blog" but if you're looking for help with this site, I would recommend taking a look or searching through the Help Center and if you can't find your answer there, ask someone in The Hangar (our chat room). | |
| Apr 2, 2014 at 0:50 | comment | added | Gilligan | On the blog: How do you do line breaks? Two SPACES does NOT work! I tried! Why am I limed to several hundred characters? Others have left comments with MANY more than I could! | |
| Apr 2, 2014 at 0:49 | comment | added | Greg Hewgill | Again, you're looking at this with the benefit of hindsight. "If only they had done X at time Y, this could have been avoided." Sure, but while it's actually happening it is very difficult to determine the correct course of action. Even for several days afterwards, searchers were looking in a different ocean. At the time, nobody knew that the blob on military radar displays might have been MH370. | |
| Apr 2, 2014 at 0:43 | comment | added | Gilligan | Granted, it would have been a huge logistical task, particularly on short notice, to follow the airliner until it crashed. Probably involving air to air refueling and the coordination of several nations. Who's paying for the HUGE ongoing search for the downed aircraft? The real-time scramble would no doubt be cheaper. There is a slim possibility some survivors could have been rescued. Virtually no chance of that now. | |
| Apr 2, 2014 at 0:42 | comment | added | Gilligan | > some jets could have been scrambled > > By whom? Who is paying for that? By the air force of the country that is being over flown by an unidentified aircraft, also unreachable by radio, that's who. I'm surprised that neither Thailand nor Malaysian Air force scrambled some jets. I would think this would be a routine procedure in this type of situation. This could have been another 9/11 type of incident, thankfully, it wasn't. Isn't that what an air force is for? | |
| Mar 31, 2014 at 15:56 | comment | added | reirab | "Remember, it was nighttime and the aircraft wasn't on radar anyway." My understanding of news reports was that it was tracked on both Malaysian and Thai military radar for quite some time after they turned off the transponder, including the entire time that it was crossing the Malay Peninsula and out into the Straights of Malacca. | |
| Mar 31, 2014 at 15:54 | comment | added | reirab | "The airline doesn't generally have a direct line of contact with their aircraft." Can one of the airline pilots here confirm if this is true? I was under the impression that it was normal for airliners to have the ability to talk to the airline dispatch. | |
| Mar 31, 2014 at 7:40 | history | answered | Greg Hewgill | CC BY-SA 3.0 |