The Technology Is Out There but Satellites Dont Track Jets by JAD MOUAWAD CHRISTOPHER DREW and NICOLA CLARK


By JAD MOUAWAD, CHRISTOPHER DREW and NICOLA CLARK

The airline industry has sophisticated tools to follow planes and stream data from their flight recorders. But given cost and the general safety of air travel, neither the airlines nor regulators have adopted them.

Published: March 21, 2014 at 12:00AM

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