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The disappearance of Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 has raised many uncomfortable questions for fliers. 

, Stephen Trimble said the technology on your iPhone "is more powerful than the evidence-collecting computers in the cockpit":

One of the problems in the plane's disappearance is the lack of a global tracking system for flights.

"It was passing from one airspace to another at precisely the time it lost communication," 

 in the UK. "Air-traffic controllers in Malaysia had just handed over the flight to Vietnam before the Acars data-transmission system was disabled."

On The Daily Circuit, we discuss what really happens when we fly across multiple countries, oceans and time zones.

7 technologies for tracking (or losing) airplanes


Here are the technologies that airlines, air traffic controllers, and militaries use to monitor the skies. (Global Post)

Tension Is Growing as Families of Flight 370 Passengers Hold Vigil


As the world puzzles over the fate of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which disappeared on its way to Beijing on March 8, the families of the 239 people aboard the Boeing 777 jet have been stuck in a netherworld between anger and grief, clinging to the remotest hope that their relatives might still be alive as the authorities have offered conflicting and confounding possible narratives. (New York Times)

What do we actually know about Malaysia Airlines Flight 370?

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