article_snippet: Believe it or not, in our modern world, airplane tracking technology has yet to enter the 21st century.
article_snippet: Why aren't air traffic controllers using it to constantly track all commercial airliners?
article_snippet: Why don't all airliners stream all airliners so-called black box data to satellites in real time?
article_snippet: airplane tracking technology is available.
article_snippet: Yes, airplane tracking technology's expensive, but so is searching hundreds of thousands of square miles of vast ocean.
article_snippet: Despite airplane tracking technology, the world lost track of the flight with the airline industry codename MH370.
article_snippet: Throughout most of the world, air traffic controllers still track airplanes with radar -- which uses technology dating back to the 1940s.
article_snippet: We might know more about what happened to MH370 if air traffic controllers used orbiting satellites to track airliners, instead of radar.
article_snippet: There are numerous technical details that need to be worked out, but moving from spinning radar domes to orbiting satellites could eventually make blind spots in airliner tracking a thing of the past.
article_snippet: It could make searching for the black boxes a thing of the past.
article_snippet: In the months since MH370 was lost, international aviation authorities have moved toward tracking airliners more closely.
article_snippet: The International Air Transport Association has announced new tracking mandates for member airlines, but there are no plans to require streaming data.
highlights_snippet: Modern tracking technology might have helped solve the mystery of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 .
  
highlights_snippet: A year after MH370 vanished, airline tracking is still largely the same .
  