After the disappearance of
Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, the ability of a plane to simply vanish in an age of information seemed impossible. Satellite company
Inmarsat is pledging to prevent the situation from happening again, and is offering its tracking services, free of charge, to every passenger airline. Every 15 minutes, all planes in flight would send a ping containing location, heading, speed and altitude data to the company's tracking stations. Given that Inmarsat's hardware is already commonplace across the global fleet, the cost to implement such a system would be negligible. The proposal will now be considered at the International Civil Aviation Organization's meeting in Montreal, which begins later today.
more at
http://www.engadget.com/2014/05/12/inmarsat-free-plane-tracking/?ncid=rss_truncated
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