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The Sinister, Scary Impact of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370
There is a common misperception despite recorded incidents and data,
that aviation technology is evolving at aviation health, safety, security and risk

similar rate to commercial technology management is not 100% controlled and
as seen in computers, phones, cars, incidents and events will and do happen,

and so on. When in fact, this just isn’t with often catastrophic results.
the case at all. It is not just the aircraft
D that is dated but also the supporting Airspace Management: World access

E systems such as radar, communications, and 100% monitored?
C reporting and access to databases as

E well. While the assumption is that it They average layman is under the
P all works just fine, when there are no impression there are super computers
T incidents or scandals, it is often not a tracking every air movement across

I topic of discussion or concern until one the globe and all centrally accessible,
O or more incidents occur and many more verifiable and accurate at any moment in

N become aware of what industry insiders time. They saw it on their iPhone app or
have been aware of and lobbying to desktop computer through a website so it
change for some time. must be the same for both commercial and

military air traffic control too, right?
Coincidence and Causation: Lag

indicators are not future assurances A growing number of reports and
observations have revealed that take off
2012 and 2013 were celebrated as two and landing are really the only closely

of the safest years in aviation history. monitored and interactive stages of
The problem with this fact is that the domestic and international air movements.

end result isn’t qualified nor specified Some locations still have bulletin boards
as the result of deliberate actions that to alert pilots and providers of changes to
created the outcome or if it was just the airspace on given days or locations and

a series of random coincidences the civil and military systems do not interact
peaked during these times. There or focus upon or even see the same data.

are more airlines, more flights, more What happens and what is monitored in
destinations, more pilots, and more the hours between take off and landing, is
travellers each and every year, which not that consistent nor is it universal the

is placing significant burden on all the world over.
associated elements in different ways,

at different times with vastly different We had noted and commented in an earlier
consequences. The reality is, article on Australia’s airspace

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