Someone on reddit pointed out this happened exactly 804 days after Malaysia Airlines 370 vanished. Weird coincidence.
Please stop.
Oh wait. Flight number is 804: 8 + 0 + 4 = 12
66 people aboard: 6 + 6 = 12
Must mean something!
EgyptAir 804 Disappears Over Mediterranean
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#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's the number of this flight that just vanished.
The Mediterranean is more of a small lake compared to the Indian ocean. So this one will be found.
Look at the size of the search regions in the Indian Ocean and along the Australian coast in response to Malaysian 340's disappearance. Those are relative small lakes compared to the entire Indian Ocean, but they're still massive swaths of water.
Don't underestimate the difficulty of a SAR operation, especially at sea.
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#13Starting my 48-hour media blackout around this topic. If I've learned one thing from trying to follow aviation incidents, it's that almost everything popularly reported in the hours after the incident is either wrong or lacking important context.
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#14Why is it that we can track boats with satellites but not planes? In fact we have a complete image[1] of boat activity in the area at the time of disappearance. It seems as crazy to me as how we can offer in-flight satellite-based wifi but not GPS tracking. [1] http://i.imgur.com/XYvC5gI.jpg
Boats are tracked by their AIS beacons on board, not passively by radar. The beacons can be switched off or stop working just the same as the beacons on planes.
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#15Why is it that we can track boats with satellites but not planes? In fact we have a complete image[1] of boat activity in the area at the time of disappearance. It seems as crazy to me as how we can offer in-flight satellite-based wifi but not GPS tracking. [1] http://i.imgur.com/XYvC5gI.jpg
Like another commentor here I don't have a huge amount of trust in early media reports but what I read was that it was within radar range when it disapeared.
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#16Why is it that we can track boats with satellites but not planes? In fact we have a complete image[1] of boat activity in the area at the time of disappearance. It seems as crazy to me as how we can offer in-flight satellite-based wifi but not GPS tracking. [1] http://i.imgur.com/XYvC5gI.jpg
Those boats are presumably sending a signal that allows them to be tracked. When we "lose" a plane, it stops sending its tracking signal.
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#18Reddit's live page on this is a surprisingly good source for up to date infos on this.
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#19Why is it that we can track boats with satellites but not planes? In fact we have a complete image[1] of boat activity in the area at the time of disappearance. It seems as crazy to me as how we can offer in-flight satellite-based wifi but not GPS tracking. [1] http://i.imgur.com/XYvC5gI.jpg
You have a complete image of flight activity in the area as well (see flightradar24). No doubt the plane crashed.