Page 2 - Radar Range News Today

Where this plane could have gone down and not have been spotted. how many of those areas exist? >> those exist in many places when you are under oceanic procedures. once you are outside of land or outside of radar range, you are not in any sort of physical contact if you disable the airplane system. swavlling around t -- traveling the globe you wont have data much like if you were driving in your car cell phone would drop out and come back in. those are little spots around the globe and they do ...

Continuing to slow down. heres the radar now out of new orleans. and there is the center. and here is the worst weather. so where you see the oranges on the radar, thats the worst weather. theres also very bad weather behind it, but it is out of radar range. im going to look at a radar simulation. this is a future radar. its an rpm computer simulation we run here at the weather channel. watch the oranges and reds. there we are on this afternoon. here it comes slowly. here we are this evening at ...

Where the radar scan then failed as far as limitation was concerned. the airplane flew out of its radar range. >> military radar sounds fancy and sounds comprehensive but its actually not. you got no data back. could be any craft moving through that space. >> correct. all it does is get a skin paint, a primary target. it says something is out there. we dont know what it is and its not identified like the civilian radar interrogating the transponder. this is the track its moving on and well have ...