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Re:An airline that has made sure its airplanes won't disappear by toomuchtodo on Monday January 05, 2015 @12:13PM (#8839793)
The money would probably be better spent speeding up ADS-B transmitter installations, as well as incentive payments to Iridium to get their new satellites with ADS-B receivers into orbit. No point in reinventing the wheel.
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Re:An airline that has made sure its airplanes won't disappear by brandon272 on Monday January 05, 2015 @12:22PM (#8839859)
I'm sure it's something that will be worked out in time. Perhaps the manufacturers themselves will be more interested in rolling out tracking technology in new aircraft versus airlines retrofitting existing planes.

But it's not an industry that responds quickly due to media hysteria surrounding rare and isolated incidents, that's for sure.

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Re:An airline that has made sure its airplanes won't disappear by cpncrunch on Monday January 05, 2015 @02:36PM (#8840624)
This is already being done, by Aireon.
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Re:An airline that has made sure its airplanes won't disappear by toomuchtodo on Monday January 05, 2015 @02:53PM (#8840722)
Right, which is a subsidiary of Iridium:

http://www.aireon.com/AboutAireon/AnIridiumInnovation

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