The most dominating news item of the week has been the Malaysian Airlines Flight 370. That flight went missing and days later, there are no answers. Technology is helping out in this crisis.
A website called Tomnod.com has called on over two million of it’s subscribers to scan satellites and search for clues of this missing plane. This is Tonmon’s biggest campaign ever, flagging around 650,000 features in pictures. This website, operated by Digital Globe, and based in Colorado, is helping search over 24,000 square miles. According to Digital Globe director? Shay Har-Noy, there are millions are on website, studying every single pixel, looking for even the slightest thing that might be out of place. Keep in mind, Digital Globe operates satellites so sophisticated they can find a briefcase anywhere on the Earth.
That’s what I don’t get about this case. If satellites can find a suitcase, why can’t they find a Boeing 777 jet? Now I’ve heard stories about Emilia Earhart and her plane was never found, but that was in the 1930s. Surely in 2014, there has to be a way of tracing something. Yet we’ve been told the black box and other communications just shut down. There is so much we’re not being told here. And what about the 20 Freescale Semiconductor workers? What if this plane was hijacked and sitting in some underground bunker? Will technology help us find this Malaysian Flight Airlines Flight 370? What’s your take on what happened?