@monkbent isn’t Rolls Royce a UK company?
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@adamwride they’re no longer going with the Rolls Royce story after MA denied it. Seems like it was an attempted coverup -
@monkbent my bet? MA didn’t pay, but the service was never turned off - data just never turned over from Boeing to MA. -
@adamwride one step further: was the fact data not turned off an accident, or required by US? -
@monkbent thinking more on this… if US were spying, they’d require full data from Boeing. Quiet pings - pretty benign. -
@adamwride some have theorized it’s actually US ability to listen in on VHF transmissions. Also plausible. -
@monkbent regardless - you know someone at NSA is saying right now “You know, if we only…”
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@monkbent Ben the airplanes aren’t be tracked it’s the satellite ability to monitor VHF radio that US is beating around bush on. -
@dcorsi since when does a “ping” contain latitude, longitude, altitude, etc? -
@monkbent acars is a text like data stream that can contain that data but I don’t think these messages did it is satellites detecting VHF - End of conversation
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@monkbent What in that article refers to US tracking? -
@monkbent Or do you just mean huge implications from the possibility that it kept flying for hours after last radar / transponder signal? -
@BrandonLive Why do you think this was kept secret for days, and then pinned on RR? China will be pissed -
@monkbent It sounds like this is an instrumentation system which the airline set up or at least knows about, right? -
@BrandonLive they’ve denied all knowledge -
@monkbent Of this specific data, not of the telemetry mechanism I thought.
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@BenedictEvans@rohit_x_ MA explicitly refused Boeing tracking, says nothing from RR. So where does the data come from?
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