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Airline Ratings A fascinating technology, Weak Signal Propagation, which is a digital radio communication protocol is proving a new tool to confirm the location of MH370 which disappeared just over seven years ago with 239 souls on board. Put simply, imagine you had to hike across a prairie and every 2 minutes there were a bunch of tripwires that you could not see, that set off an alarm or put another way imagine you broke into a high-security bank and to reach the vault you had to cross a room full of laser beams (above) that you could not see and any one interruption of a laser ...

Airlines are always seeking the most fuel efficient routes between points "a" and "b," meaning flight plans can cross unstable areas. >> these areas of conflict where the tensions are higher certainly mean that the operators, the airlines, need to be vigilant. >> in 2001, 78 people were dead during a ukrainian military exercise and it was over ukraine in 2014 that malaysia air flight 17 was shot down by a russian missile as war waged below. the message is clear. >> it's a wake-up call to the military of every military in the world to be absolutely certain of target identification before you re...

An american warship at thank you for high alert in the watching, everyone, persian gulf and good night on the ship's radar an approaching aircraft mistaken for an iranian fighter. the commander of the "uss vincennes" giving a fateful order to shoot it down. the aircraft turned out to be iran air flight 655, a civilian airbus on route to dubai. all 290 people on board were killed. it was not the first time a commercial aircraft unwittingly flew into the fatal fog of war ten years earlier, korean airlines flight 902 flew off course in route from paris to seoul. ♪ people are talkin', talkin' at...

They confirm the runway is stable. the area is a good staging point. even when the u.s. air force comes in, i have seen two of the helicopters on the island today. doing air patrol. tomorrow we'll get a good understanding of numbers that they would have been able to rescue. and also we can give an official count. people of the bahamas and numbers we have. we can confirm has been rescued and no longer with us. >> i have been told by one person that at times coast guard at least in one incident a helicopter had to wait for a long time in order to take off. because they didn't have a flight plan....

The normal rules that one would go through whether it's customs forms that you have to fill out or flight plans that you're supposed to file. is that getting in the way at all of the speed of the response at all? >> as it is now. the department is located in nassau. the air control tower in free port and we're relying on command from nassau. yesterday for instance, we had to close down at 6:00 because night was falling and we wanted to get the planes on the ground out. with respect to customs clearings. there is an order that was made. the form is simple. persons who are areceiving good it's a...