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Re:What the nine debris finds may tell us about the MH370 en... by raverbashing on Saturday June 04, 2016 @03:09AM (#11835320)
If they had sent position, altitude and heading every minute (which requires very little bandwidth) literally millions of dollars would have been saved with both AF447 (which had ACARS info every 10min) and MH370
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Re:What the nine debris finds may tell us about the MH370 en... by lloeki on Saturday June 04, 2016 @04:41AM (#11835547)
You seem to be underestimating the extent of areas in the world where bandwidth is effectively zero in all practical scenarios
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Re:What the nine debris finds may tell us about the MH370 en... by raverbashing on Saturday June 04, 2016 @05:45AM (#11835698)
No I am not. You can use satellite communications for that.

See this for possible alternatives: https://www.bea.aero/uploads/tx_elyextendttnews/flight.data....

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Re:What the nine debris finds may tell us about the MH370 en... by ryanlol on Saturday June 04, 2016 @05:00AM (#11835590)
Iridium is available pretty much everywhere, you don't need much bandwidth to transmit your location.
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Re:What the nine debris finds may tell us about the MH370 en... by james32322 on Saturday June 04, 2016 @11:55AM (#11836750)
Or use inmarsat which is available precicly everywhere. They have 100% world coverage.
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