Why planes could still vanish into thin air like MH370
The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 prompted a slew of safety proposals meant to prevent another jetliner from inexplicably vanishing. Yet 4 years later, that possibility remains. That's because international requirements for new planes to broadcast their locations every minute when they're in trouble don't take effect until Jan 2021. In an era where people can track their iPhones in real time, the world's most-advanced transportation industry still isn't obligated to do the same for craft carrying about 4b passengers a year. And that one-minute rule doesn’t apply to the current fleet of 23,500 passenger planes and the thousands more joining them in the next 3 years — mostly in Asia." “You can’t say MH370 won’t ever happen again, because it will,” said a professor of electronic and radio systems. <br/>
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Why planes could still vanish into thin air like MH370
The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 prompted a slew of safety proposals meant to prevent another jetliner from inexplicably vanishing. Yet 4 years later, that possibility remains. That's because international requirements for new planes to broadcast their locations every minute when they're in trouble don't take effect until Jan 2021. In an era where people can track their iPhones in real time, the world's most-advanced transportation industry still isn't obligated to do the same for craft carrying about 4b passengers a year. And that one-minute rule doesn’t apply to the current fleet of 23,500 passenger planes and the thousands more joining them in the next 3 years — mostly in Asia." “You can’t say MH370 won’t ever happen again, because it will,” said a professor of electronic and radio systems. <br/>
