This tracking site is real time with many dedicated followers installing receivers of ads-b m-lat needs at least 4 recievers to track a non ads-b equipped aircraft ( mainly older aircraft) then there's FAA which is in North America not real time but delayed by 5 minutes. The problem with this mornings aircrash was that there's no recievers in the area to supply coverage and as its a md83 these don't have ads-b transponders so would need to be in the category of m-lat.

That's so crass, I'm actually lost for words.

I've never seen that one before.

Another one goes down. An Iranian passenger plane with 48 on board crashes shortly after take off from Tehran.

Not a good year so far. Those statisticians who were suggesting the imminent possibility of a zero deaths year look a bit daft now.

are they still searching for the malaysian plane then went down off the coast of Australia? not heard anything for a while.

and what about the black box recovered from the Ukraine crash... did that give anything , guess they know but not giving it out yet

They are indeed searching and are now well on with the laborious mapping process of the area of sea bed of greatest interest.
[urlhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-29378953[/url

This sort of thing:


The resolution is far too co to pick up something as small as an aircraft, but the mapping wasn't done for that reason, it was to plot courses to drag the detection equipment, without crashing into obstructions etc. Apparently, before this, we had better maps of Mars than of this area of sea bed, and the mountains on it are said to make the Himalayas "look like foothills" so the scale of the challenge is literally and mind-bogglingly enormous.