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Originally Posted by Acey
Satellite ADS-B will be up soon and we'll have worldwide tracking of all airplanes. All planes need to have ADS-B by 2020; pretty much all in Europe and Asia do, just North America lagging but we'll get there. So it's almost done aircraft-side, just have to get the necessary equipment up sky-side and on the ground and we'll be good to go.
Check this out... a few weeks ago a successful trial run of satellite ADS-B tracking was done by FlightRadar24. All the airplanes in blue are out of radar range over the Atlantic, and their ADS-B (GPS position, essentially) signal was picked up by a satellite. If something were to happen to any of them, their position to ~10 meters is known, assuming their transponder stays live till they hit the water.
As always, nothing can be done if a homicidal captain wants to turn off the transponder. Read more about the trial here.
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is it just me or is it weird that the A380 above Paamiut is blue?