Malaysian Airlines MH370 jet was Hidden Deliberately?

ADS-B – Does it mean anything to you? It should. People probably don’t realise but Air Traffic control don’t use radar to track Aircraft flying around the world. The  Malaysian Airlines jet may have simply “Disappeared” because the Hi-jackers turned off the ADS-B system.

ADS-B is a system on the Aircraft saying where it is much like your Mobile Phones GPS tells you where you are on Google Maps. The Plane has a device that uses GPS to get its position and then “tells” Air traffic control where it is. They then plot it on their systems along with all the other  aircraft and track them to avoid collisions etc. Up to now the worry has been that without Radar they’d be open to Hackers setting up “phantom” planes to swamp the  system but what if you wanted to hide? Turn it off.

ADS-B is mandatory above 29k ft. If they turned it off then Air Traffic control would think they’d crashed. Hence their pleas for all military radar /satellites info to find out is anyone could actually “see” where the plane had gone – no Radar out in the pacific or Indian Oceans.

I wonder where it really went, has it crashed or gone somewhere secluded? Will we ever know?