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The Sinister, Scary Impact of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370
        interoperability shortly before the                  Many have become agitated and appalled
        official news coverage also. The fact                by the Snowden revelations around civil

        remains, people or an incident was                   and social monitoring programs. Everyone
        able to make a large, modern aircraft                therefore believes that everything is

        with over 200 souls aboard disappear                 monitored at all times and acted upon.
        without a trace while the entire world               This is neither true nor realistic either. If              D
        watched on, despite all the current                  that true, all storms would be reported                    E

        technology and monitoring available to               to the affected before they struck,                        C
        civil and military agencies.                         murder victims warned of the impending                     E

                                                             threat and all accidents such as aircraft                  P
        Who’s watching?: NSA and other                       crashes would be captured, reported and                    T
        global over watch perceptions                        responded to before the aircraft actually                  I

                                                             crashed.                                                   O

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        Despite what most people and even                    volume of data, channels and activity

        informed professional believed, many                 in a single minute of any day, 24/7 is
        presumably important activities such as              a staggering number and a long, long
        aviation movements are not monitored                 way off before there is anything close to

        in real time, at all times and reported              achieving real time, universal monitoring
        or acted upon in the event of the                    and access of such activities. The bad guys

        slightest variation. Even finding data or            know this too.
        related information after the fact can be
        difficult or impossible. Not to mention              Warning Signs: Related, studied,

        that even if there were data on certain              rehearsed or coincidence?
        events, the data, source and means of

        collection would never be made public                Within the first couple of months of 2014
        in the interest of protecting secrets.               there were already a couple of key events,
                                                             involving aviation safety and security

        Despite apps and desktop/online portals              that are related to Malaysia Airlines
        for getting access to airline schedules,             MH370. Ethiopian Airlines Flight 702
        tracking flights, aviation statistics and            was significant not because it involved the

        even in-flight radio transmissions, the              alleged hijacking of an aircraft heading

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