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Re: Question for pilots.
From: Lu Abel
Date: 2014 Mar 17, 11:49 -0700
From: Lu Abel
Date: 2014 Mar 17, 11:49 -0700
There was a discussion of offshore tracking on one of the (US) national news programs yesterday and when asked about a knowledgeable hijacker disabling satellite tracking (as the MN370 hijackers apparently did with their ground transponder), the aviation expert being interviewed said "unfortunately, there's always a circuit breaker somewhere that someone with sufficient expertise could throw ..."
From: Richard B. Langley <lang@unb.ca>
To: luabel@ymail.com
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Subject: [NavList] Re: Question for pilots.
In the future, we might not have to rely on radar. NAV CANADA has entered into a joint venture with Iridium Communications, called Aireon, which will expand air traffic surveillance to the entire planet by installing ADS-B receivers on Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites. The plan is to use the Iridium NEXT satellites. I guess such a system could also be turned off on an aircraft unless it is made tamper-proof. But it would likely have a circuit breaker somewhere.
