They have tracked it to a place from which It didn't have enough fuel to return.
Unless you are hanging your hat on aliens beaming them up, or a long undiscovered island in the south indian ocean which just happened to have a 5000 foot runway, some times you have to go by the numbers and state that they crashed.

There is very little reason to have spy satellites in the south Indian ocean.
Inmarsat is one of the few companies needing coverage down there because they have the contract for ACARS data an occasional sat phone calls. This area is not even on normal shipping routes.

You should try to keep up with the actual events instead of lashing out on Slashdot.

The DATA transmissions ceased on the ACARS, but the radio system still pings the satellite.
The radio system keeps its link with the satellite as long as the actual transmitter has power.

Just because you stop tweeting on your phone doesn't mean the phone stops talking to towers.

Ask Captain Sullenberger. Oh, and stop being an idiot.

I thought the same thing.

With digital tuners, what radio system even captures exact frequency these days? Its either in-band our out of band and not heard.

Perhaps these satellite radios are wider band, and therefore they record the exact frequency any transmission arrived, but it just seems unusual to have this information at all, let alone to be able to dig it up out of several days old data.

Linux is already the norm in Brazilian ATMs, so the banks can just buy ready built versions.

Bye now, I'm off to my Portuguese class.

Everything you said is false.
I mean, I can't imagine how you could be wrong on every single point, unless you are still driving that 82 Toyota.

The headlights recognize tail lights and won't go to bright when I'm following, the car can distinguish someone cutting me off, and brakes just enough to allow for the DIFFERENCE in speed, the blind spot monitoring works perfectly, (and I still turn my head because not all the cars I drive have this). Cross traffic detection is for when you are backing out of parking spaces, not driving.

Basically, I don't think you should be driving period. Your attitude betrays an ego larger than your brain. You don't belong on the road.
Its time to trade in that deadly heap you drive, because your abilities stopped improving years ago.
Humans are the least reliable element in the modern car.

What electrical issues? None of those affect driveability.

Why in the name of blissful sleep would you want to be awoken then?

My automatic headlights and automatic wipers work perfectly. As does my auto high-beam.
So does my collision avoidance braking system,
blind spot monitoring,
traction control system,
rear cross-traffic detection,
adaptive cruise control,
parking assist radars,
keyless entry, keyless starting,
remote start, etc.

What do you have against safety and convenience features?
Why do they all have to be made of metal and weigh a ton, instead of never-rusting plastic?

Take a look at this chart and tell me which part of the past you think we should revisit.

How many times are you going to post the same nonsense?

Ford does not own Jaguar.

Bull.
Does your car fail to start if you don't buckle your seat belt?
Does your car not work if your tail light goes out or your turn signal fails?
If you disable your front collision avoidance system does your car not work?

I know people who would buy this in a heartbeat. (Especially if it reduces insurance costs).

Rear cams are not that essential. They are nice to have.

Collision avoidance radar, braking systems, lane monitoring and blind spot monitoring systems are getting cheap, and some combinations of these components are showing up on sub $20K cars.

The term you were looking for is "bare metal".
Bare back is something totally different.