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I'd imagine that because it was in French airspace, that it's classed as French territory. And as it's now being treated as murder, the prosecution service will be involved. One aspect of this is that if it can be shown that anyone had any foreknowledge of this guy's intention to crash the...

Really? The suicide rate in Germany is higher than that of the UK and higher than all of the supposedly doom-laden Scandinavian countries: this is the country of Werther, after all

Yes, it would. But there'd still need to be a discrete spectrum and total coverage. My post was a bit misleading: I wasn't trying to imply that planes would use GSM or even UMTS like cellular, but to point out that 100% global coverage wasn't completely straightforward

You would also probably need a discrete band of spectrum for this data; have enough transmission points around the globe to ensure there are no holes in coverage. That in itself is a tough proposition when you think that 30 years after cellular telephony there are still massive blackspots in the...