Inmarsat offers airlines free global tracking to prevent another MH370

After the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, the ability of a plane to simply vanish in an age of information seemed impossible. Satellite company Inmarsat is pledging to prevent the situation from happening again, and is offering its tracking services, free of charge, to every passenger airline. Every 15 minutes, all planes in flight would send a ping containing location, heading, speed and altitude data to the company's tracking stations.

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