MH370: Could a plane vanish again? (Reporter25)

Since MH370 went missing two years ago, those of us who frequently fly long-haul across the oceans have no doubt paused to ask if the same thing could happen again.

MH370 was about 40 minutes into its flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing when something happened. They have no idea what. None whatsoever, & someone who tells you they have the answer is wrong. Investigators still haven't found the wreckage of the plane. These are piling on the agony for relatives & friends of the victims.

What came as a surprise, So even to some in the industry, was to the revelation that planes are not tracked in actual time. When flights cross oceans, pilots check in with air traffic control every 30 minutes. But that leaves long gaps.

The aviation industry says such a catastrophe must seldom happen again. The best way to be sure that is to know where the plane is at all times. So what is changed in airline industry expertise & practice in the last years?

So the public concern about the MH370 scandal grew, the industry agreed to need planes to document their positions, at least, every 15 minutes, & every minute if the aircraft unexpectedly changed work or altitude, or was in distress.

This ought to make it much simpler to locate an aircraft if it crashes in a remote part of the world. But 14 minutes to still a long time for a plane flying at 500 miles an hour. Even if an accident happened minute after the last document, the search area would be immense.

Today, most major global carriers have a satellite contacts and equipment these report aircraft positions more often than the maximum 15-minute requirement.

What happen MH370 again? That not same way, but yes, a plane could still disappear. It could take days, if not weeks, to find a wreckage given the distances planes can be travel in very a quarter of an hour.

Now aviation must show it's made the changes needed to be definite history does not repeat itself.