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EgyptAir 804 Disappears Over Mediterranean

by akshayn on 5/19/16, 5:22 AM with 26 comments

• by JumpCrisscross on 5/19/16, 6:08 AM

  Starting my 48-hour media blackout around this topic. If I've learned one thing from trying to follow aviation incidents, it's that almost everything popularly reported in the hours after the incident is either wrong or lacking important context.

• by riffraff on 5/19/16, 6:17 AM

  Reddit's live page on this is a surprisingly good source for up to date infos on this.

  https://www.reddit.com/live/wy0st0j6out0

• by yread on 5/19/16, 8:30 AM

  AvHerald is always a good source for factual information that doesn't include rumors and speculations http://www.avherald.com/h?article=4987fb09&opt=0

• by hughes on 5/19/16, 6:07 AM

  Why is it that we can track boats with satellites but not planes? In fact we have a complete image[1] of boat activity in the area at the time of disappearance.

  It seems as crazy to me as how we can offer in-flight satellite-based wifi but not GPS tracking.

  [1] http://i.imgur.com/XYvC5gI.jpg

• by aerovistae on 5/19/16, 5:49 AM

  Someone on reddit pointed out this happened exactly 804 days after Malaysia Airlines 370 vanished. Weird coincidence.