Satellite Imaging Company Crowdsourcing Search For Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 from Kuala Lumpur to
Beijing went missing early last Saturday morning local time. So
far, there has been no sign of the aircraft and a massive search is
underway for the missing plane. The last known position of the
aircraft was over the Gulf of Thailand.

The area being searched is vast, and a Colorado-based satellite
imaging company is crowdsourcing the search.

From
ABC News:

Longmont, Colo.-based DigitalGlobe trained cameras from its five
orbiting satellites Saturday on the Gulf of Thailand region where
Malaysia flight 370 was last heard from, said Luke Barrington,
senior manager of Geospatial Big Data for DigitalGlobe.

The images being gathered will be made available for free to the
public on a
website called Tomnod. Anyone can click on the link and begin
searching the images, tagging anything that looks suspicious. Each
pixel on a computer screen represents half a meter on the ocean’s
surface, Barrington told ABC News.

“For people who aren’t able to drive a boat through the Pacific
Ocean to get to the Malaysian peninsula, or who can’t fly airplanes
to look there, this is a way that they can contribute and try to
help out,” Barrington said.

Click
here to see if you can find any sign of Malaysia Airlines
Flight 370.

Officials have said that the two Iranian men who boarded the
missing flight with stolen passports
do not have ties to terrorist groups. The Malaysian air force
says that the flight changed course
before disappearing.