We Have You Covered

摘要

Five years after Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, a Boeing 777 destined for Beijing, vanished after a nighttime departure from Kuala Lumpur International Airport, airline passengers around the world are still wondering if operators have made any progress to more closely track airliners, especially when they're flying where ground radar is nonexistent, over open water, or in mountainous areas. Not only did the crew of MH370 stop responding to radio calls, but the aircraft's transponder also shut down, making tracking nearly impossible. If not for raw data received from an Inmarsat satellite attempting to contact the flight, rescue and recovery teams would have been clueless about where to begin. While data were scarce, MH370 is believed to have gone down in the Indian Ocean.