Malaysia Airlines having a crappy year

VonDigger - 2014-07-18 8:27 PM

Farrierlady - 2014-07-18 5:55 PM

VonDigger - 2014-07-18 5:48 PM

Farrierlady - 2014-07-18 5:38 PM The first Malaysian Airliner that disappeared into the ocean was actually headed to China, not Amsterdam. The Pro Russian Ukraines is who they believe shot this one down and they "thought" it was a cargo plane, not a passenger plane. They had already shot down 2 cargo planes prior to this.

Very sad.

With the radar used to guide the missles, it would have been identified as a commercial jet (AKA civilian). There is no way to mistake it as a military plane.

We can agree to disagree on this one. Radar detects size, not the call number. Military (missile) radar is quite different than radar that air traffic control uses. So, yes, it can easily be mistaken for a cargo plane.

I should have expounded on this a little more. In the black box, all airplanes carry a trasponder that the radar, military planes have 2. The first transponder marks the plane as either civilian or military, the 2nd marks a military plane by country (freind of foe). When the missle locks onto a target before launch, it first looks for the #1 transponder signal to tell if the plane is civilian or military, once it is determined military it looks for the 2nd signal to tell wether friend or foe. This can be over riden to hit any airborne target. The missle used was the latest incarnation of the BUK missle or SA-11.

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