cnn/2014/03/17/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-plane/ Could Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 have slipped by radar? (CNN) -- Could a massive passenger jet slip past radar, cross international borders and land undetected? Thats a key question investigators are weighing as they continue the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which vanished March 8 on a flight between Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and Beijing. Radar does have some blind spots, and its possible to fly at lower altitudes to avoid being spotted, analysts told CNN. But experts are divided over whether that could be what happened to the missing Boeing 777. Jeffrey Beatty, a security consultant and former FBI special agent, says someone could have planned a route that avoided radar detection. It certainly is possible to fly through the mountains in that part of the world and not be visible on radar. Also, an experienced pilot, anyone who wanted to go in that direction, could certainly plot out all the known radar locations, and you can easily determine, where are the radar blind spots? he said. Its the type of things the Americans did when they went into Pakistan to go after Osama bin Laden.
Posted on: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 07:38:17 +0000