UK satellite operator Inmarsat is to offer a free tracking service to passenger airlines globally.
The offer follows the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 on March 8. The plane has not been found.
It was electronic 'pings' from Inmarsat equipment on the lost plane that led investigators to look for wreckage in the Indian Ocean.
Inmarsat says the free service would see planes determine their location using GPS and then transmit that data - together with heading, speed and altitude - over Inmarsat's global satellite network every 15 minutes.
"Our equipment already is on 90 per cent of the world's wide-body jets. This is an immediate fix for the industry at no cost to the industry," Inmarsat senior vice-president Chris McLaughlin told BBC News.
UK satellite operator Inmarsat is to offer a free tracking service to passenger airlines globally.
The offer follows the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 on March 8. The plane has not been found.
It was electronic 'pings' from Inmarsat equipment on the lost plane that led investigators to look for wreckage in the Indian Ocean.
Inmarsat says the free service would see planes determine their location using GPS and then transmit that data - together with heading, speed and altitude - over Inmarsat's global satellite network every 15 minutes.
"Our equipment already is on 90 per cent of the world's wide-body jets. This is an immediate fix for the industry at no cost to the industry," Inmarsat senior vice-president Chris McLaughlin told BBC News.
