There are many possible scenarios including political and technical=20
issues. I cannot see any commercial value in monitoring air traffic in=20
that sort of airspace.
Things may have changed since I was an active pilot but I recall that I=20
was out of radar coverage most of the time when I was traveling between=20
the Bahamas and Florida in a small aircraft. The first time that=20
happened as a solo pilot on a dark night I realized what "all alone"=20
really meant"!

On 3/12/2014 12:24 PM, Tamas Rudnai wrote:
> Writing this to this list as I know quite few of you have knowledge on av=
iation. I am just thinking how could the most sophisticated airliner just d=
isappear in thin air? Ground control use radar and beacons as they trust in=
 these much better than any other positioning devices, I get that. I also t=
otally understand that the plane was flying in an area that was uncovered b=
y radar - at least by commercial radars. But the most modern airliner has n=
o GPS at all on board? Or they do have but just could not send back the pos=
ition to the ground control?
>
> Tamas
>
> Sent from my iPad

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