Most popular posts December 2014

1.) Satellite data shows MH370 plane crashed into the Indian Ocean - Critical days were lost in the search for MH370 because Malaysian authorities initially rejected evidence from a British satellite company that the Boeing 777 with 239 aboard was in the Southern Indian Ocean. [Full story] 

2.) US Army deploys missile-fighting blimp over Maryland - For the first time, the U.S. Army lofted a blimp equipped with a new cruise-missile and drone-fighting radar system high above rural Maryland. [Full story] 

3.) Video: Plane crashes near Montgomery County Airpark - A small jet aircraft crashed into a neighborhood within a mile of Montgomery County Airpark in Gaithersburg, Md., on Dec. 8. [Full story]

4.) Video: Chinese helicopter lands on U.S. guided-missile destroyer - A Chinese Harbin Z-9E helicopter practices landing aboard the U.S. Navy's guided-missile destroyer USS Sterett (DDG 104). [Full story] 

5.) Video: Army blimp launched over Maryland - You might have heard of JLENS, the U.S. Army’s cruise-missile fighting radar blimp that will be stationed at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Md. [Full story]

Most popular posts 2014

1.) Cirrus aircraft crashes off Virginia in Atlantic Ocean - The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the crash of a Cirrus SR22 into the Atlantic Ocean about 50 miles from Wallops Island, Va., on Aug. 30. [Full story] 

2.) Critical heat shield installed on NASA's new Orion spacecraft - NASA and Lockheed Martin engineers installed the largest heat shield ever constructed on the crew module of the agency's new Orion spacecraft in June. [Full story] 

3.) Coast Guard suspends search for missing plane in Lake Pontchartrain - The U.S. Coast Guard suspended the search for a missing aircraft in Lake Pontchartrain on Nov. 13. [Full story] 

4.) Military C-130 'hard landing' reported, no injuries - A Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System (MAFFS) aircraft under the control of U.S. Northern Command experienced a hard landing at 4:53 p.m. EDT on Aug. 17 at Hill Air Force Base in Utah. [Full story] 

5.) Satellite data shows MH370 plane crashed into the Indian Ocean - Critical days were lost in the search for MH370 because Malaysian authorities initially rejected evidence from a British satellite company that the Boeing 777 with 239 aboard was in the Southern Indian Ocean. [Full story]

Satellite data shows MH370 plane crashed into the Indian Ocean

Critical days were lost in the search for MH370 because Malaysian authorities initially rejected evidence from a British satellite company that the Boeing 777 with 239 aboard was in the Southern Indian Ocean.

British sources told AirlineRatings.com Editor Geoffrey Thomas that within 24 hours of the disappearance of MH370 on March 8, Inmarsat, a satellite communications company based in the United Kingdom, advised the relevant Malaysian authorities of their findings but were rebuffed.

Inmarsat then approached the U.K. Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) with its data and it immediately recognized the significance.

Inmarsat was contracted to provide a data link to the Malaysian Airlines fleet and continued to get a signal every hour from MH370 till 8.19 a.m. Perth time.

The Malaysian authorities were forced to take the findings seriously when the AAIB teamed with Inmarsat to represent the data around March 14 - five days after the Boeing 777 disappeared.