{"id":585,"date":"2009-11-13T23:36:05","date_gmt":"2009-11-14T04:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royceeddington.com\/?p=585"},"modified":"2009-11-13T23:36:42","modified_gmt":"2009-11-14T04:36:42","slug":"flight-188-followup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/?p=585","title":{"rendered":"Flight 188 followup"},"content":{"rendered":"

I posted a search area of Flight 188 if it really went missing a few days ago<\/a> and wondered why exactly a passenger jet plane could lose radio contact with Air Traffic Control towers and be “lost” for so long without any kind of military response.<\/p>\n

Well today the FAA announced that air traffic controllers are now on notice to only let 10 minutes go by before notifying the military<\/a>. Flight 188 went on for 77 minutes without contact, so that’s a big improvement. But when these jets have a cruising speed<\/a> of Mach 0.78 (0.78 mach = 593.74 mph) and a max speed of Mach 0.82 (0.82 mach = 624.19 mph), that’s still a LOT of ground they can cover in 10 minutes. Around 99 to 105 miles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I posted a search area of Flight 188 if it really went missing a few days ago and wondered why exactly a passenger jet plane could lose radio contact with Air Traffic Control towers and be “lost” for so long … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pfyw-9r","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":589,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions\/589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}