According to a news report in New Straits Times, a super-secret installation just outside Alice Springs in Australia, which remains cloaked in secrecy, may have captured Flight MH370s descent into the oblivion on March 8. US-based news portal, Aviation Week, has also accused Canberra of being unwilling to disclose whether its Jindalee Over-The-Horizon Radar (OTHR) system had tracked the flight. The portal claimed the super radar had an official range of 3,000 km and is reportedly able to reach further into the South China Sea. It claimed that the facility could even pick out the type of aircraft taking off from Changi International Airport in Singapore. When Bloomberg asked recently whether Australia had picked up any signals consistent with MH370 on its Jindalee Operational Radar Network, an Australian Defence Department spokesman said it wont be providing comment on the military surveillance system. Another installation, Pine Gap, maintained jointly by US and Australia, can also help in tracking MH370. It is believed that Pine Gaps ability to track microwave emissions, such as long-distance calls, can be of particular help in finding the missing plane. -- IndiaToday.InToday.in
Posted on: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 08:49:06 +0000
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