Emiliano Sala...

[toonfalifekevbrown]

Terrible terrible news .

[Kingstonbob1]

Dreadful news. He’ll have signed a new improved contract, been looking forward to a brilliant new challenge, living in a new country and learning a new culture/language and then this. How cruel life can be.

[Jammy89]

Horrible news. My thoughts are with his and the pilots families.

They've now suspended the search for the night again.

Sadly can't see any circumstance in which either will be found alive now, if their bodies are found at all

So so sad.

[ex_pat_magpie]

Such devastatingly terrible news and deepest sympathy to both families and friends.

I just can't understand in these days of advanced technology that there was no radar trace.

In my stint in the R.A.F. in the mid 1950's I was on fighter control and radar was only 15/16 years old, relatively in it's infancy, but even so very accurate and 65 years on it seems impossible that a situation like this could occur.

[Jammy89]

There was radar contact i believe, it disappeared off radar at 2,300ft according to BBC.

The area it disappeared was the first search area, as you'd expect.

The head of Guernsey coast guard was on 5live and he said the tides around that area can be really bad though, move things more than 20 miles and that last night it was high waves and high tides.

[ex_pat_magpie]

There was radar contact i believe, it disappeared off radar at 2,300ft according to BBC.

The area it disappeared was the first search area, as you'd expect.

The head of Guernsey coast guard was on 5live and he said the tides around that area can be really bad though, move things more than 20 miles and that last night it was high waves and high tides.

10 years ago the Yanks developed radar to such an extent that they could indentify whether a subject at ground level was male or female by the sway of the hips. It is that accurate these days.

[Xamand]

10 years ago the Yanks developed radar to such an extent that they could indentify whether a subject at ground level was male or female by the sway of the hips. It is that accurate these days.

More so, a synthetic aperture radar can be used to measure the movement of a bridge as traffic moves over it to mm accuracy. However, the higher the accuracy / resolution, the smaller the area that can be covered. Also, radar data generally needs to be processed before it is much use to a human user. For highly accurate results, this is often done as post-processing, ie not in real time. Neither of these is much use in the realm of air navigation, where you need real time results covering very large areas. Civil aviation radars also tend to have a minimum altitude coverage of around 2,000ft above sea level, due to various line of sight and clutter (not a great deal of difference between a flock of canada geese and a piper cub) issues.

[Stanleymag]

Dreadful news. He’ll have signed a new improved contract, been looking forward to a brilliant new challenge, living in a new country and learning a new culture/language and then this. How cruel life can be.

I had this exact same conversation yesterday with a friend as to how this young footballer had worked his way up to this level, only for it to be cut short so tragically.

Awful man.

Bless him, and his family.

[MidsMagpie]

It is truly heartbreaking coming over to another chapter in his career playing in the premier league then this happens, Brings a tear to the eye when you look at the pictures and video footage of him meeting the officials from Cardiff the big smile on his face its tragic. Bless him and the pilot and you just hope for a miracle and they are safe somewhere.

[ronandtet]

More so, a synthetic aperture radar can be used to measure the movement of a bridge as traffic moves over it to mm accuracy. However, the higher the accuracy / resolution, the smaller the area that can be covered. Also, radar data generally needs to be processed before it is much use to a human user. For highly accurate results, this is often done as post-processing, ie not in real time. Neither of these is much use in the realm of air navigation, where you need real time results covering very large areas. Civil aviation radars also tend to have a minimum altitude coverage of around 2,000ft above sea level, due to various line of sight and clutter (not a great deal of difference between a flock of canada geese and a piper cub) issues.

the RAF Sentinel aircraft can pinpoint individuals from a standoff position As it is for battlefield monitoring information is downloaded to mobile commands for instant action - indeed if say they were used for illegal immigrants they could've picked them up still on shore - I,m sure that they would've been a big help in the search
the Sentinels did themselves proud in syria , libya and helping the french in Mali