Design of an improved decision search system for missing aircrafts: MH370 case study the deconstruction of houdini's greatest act
Ray Skaddan, Noura Alhashemi, Majed Zaini, Mohanad Khuraishi · 2017
Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 disappeared on March 8th, 2014 with 227 passengers and 12 crew members on board. The flight departed from Kuala Lampur, Malaysia at 16:42 UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) on what was scheduled to be a five hour and thirty-four-minute flight. During the flight, at 17:21 UTC, the communication system became inactive and all communication with the air traffic control ceased. The aircraft has not been found, therefore a new search tool is developed as a stochastic decision-based software that incorporates airplane dynamics, oceanic flow, and recorded searched areas to determine a probable resting location. The system makes a recommendation with minimal inputs but becomes more accurate as information is processed, weighed and calculated. The decision-based system uses the search for the MH370 plane as a trial to measure the effectiveness and precision of the system. The system functions on a personal computer and is comprehensible to a `non-expert' running a scenario.