The last thing I heard was that the plane did a U turn and disconnected its=
 transponder. Military radar had it dropping to extremely low altitude and =
disappearing for a while. Then it popped up
briefly and went back to extremely low altitude.=20
So either it crashed or an really knowledgeable pilot stole the plane.

-----Original Message-----
From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf Of=
 Tamas Rudnai
Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2014 12:24 PM
To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
Subject: [OT] Vanished Airliner

Writing this to this list as I know quite few of you have knowledge on avia=
tion. I am just thinking how could the most sophisticated airliner just dis=
appear in thin air? Ground control use radar and beacons as they trust in t=
hese much better than any other positioning devices, I get that. I also tot=
ally understand that the plane was flying in an area that was uncovered by =
radar - at least by commercial radars. But the most modern airliner has no =
GPS at all on board? Or they do have but just could not send back the posit=
ion to the ground control?

Tamas

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