Malaysia Airlines MH370: How groundbreaking number crunching found path of Flight 370 The mathematics-based process used by Inmarsat and the UKs Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) to reveal the definitive path was described by McLaughlin as groundbreaking. Weve done something new, he said. Heres how the process works in a nutshell: Inmarsat officials and engineers were able to determine whether the plane was flying away or toward the satellites location by expansion or compression of the satellites signal. What does expansion or compression mean? You may have heard about something called the Doppler effect.
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