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小编给你一个美联英语官方免费试听课申请链接： /test/waijiao.aspx?tid=16-73675-0 美联英语提供：影视英语 民航飞机定位规则落后时代 For the second time in 2014, a passenger plane vanished midflight. In March, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared and the most expensive search mission in recent aviation history followed. It is still missing. On Sunday, AirAsia Flight 8501 disappeared off Indonesia. It took about two days for search teams to find debris. 2014年，先后有两架客机在飞行途中消失。3月，马来西亚航空(Malaysia Airlines)370航班失联，触发了近年航空史上最昂贵的搜索行动。370航班至今仍然杳无踪迹。上周日，亚洲航空(AirAsia)8501航班在飞离印度尼西亚后失踪。搜救队伍用了大约两天时间才找到了飞机残骸。 These similar incidents suggest that the current system for tracking aircraft — via ground-based radar and satellite — is insufficient. It’s shocking that two planes carrying hundreds of people could go missing, especially given advances in wireless communication. 两起相似的事故意味着，目前用于追踪飞机位置的方法——通过地面的雷达以及卫星——并不足以完成任务。尤其是考虑到无线通讯领域的种种进步，两架载有数百名乘客的飞机居然会失踪，这让人感到不可思议。 From a technological standpoint, it抯 possible to outfit aircraft to stream flight data in real time. Carriers have been reluctant to do so because in-flight disasters are rare, and streaming is costly. But shaken by the loss of Flight 370, the aviation industry and aviation regulators are coming around to the need for change. 从技术角度讲，让飞机实时传输飞行数据流是可能的。航空公司一直不愿意这么做，是因为飞行途中发生事故的情况比较少见，而实时传输数据流价格不菲。但在马航370航班失联带来的震惊中，航空业和航空监管机构开始意识到改变的必要性。 In the spring, the Malaysia Transport Ministry issued a preliminary report on Flight 370 with a single recommendation: that the United Nations’ International Civil Aviation Organization examine the safety benefits of introducing a standard for real-time tracking. 今年春天，马来西亚交通部(Transport Ministry)发布了关于马航370航班的初步报告，报告中唯一的建议是：希望联合国下属的国际民用航空组织(International Civil Aviation Organization)评估引进实时追踪标准的安全益处。 The International Air Transport Association has released its own voluntary standard: Within one year’s time, all aircraft should report their positions at least every 15 minutes, and more often during emergencies. There’s reason to suspect tha