Inmarsat handshake: the satellite ping that rewrote a 7 hour disappearance
About this episode
The episode explores the mysterious disappearance of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 and the satellite handshake that revealed its seven-hour flight path.
Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 disappeared with 239 people aboard and flew for seven hours into the Indian Ocean while every aviation authority on earth thought it had crashed in the South China Sea. The transponder was switched off at the exact moment the plane crossed from Malaysian to Vietnamese airspace, a seam where neither controller had authority to escalate, and the only system still working was a satellite handshake protocol that no one thought to check for nearly two weeks. Charlie Cruz reverse engineers the whole mechanism.
Topics covered
- aviation
- disappearance
- satellite technology
- investigation
- true crime
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