Glossary/S

MH370 Decoded: Glossary S

This index uses the Phonetic (spoken) Alphabet.

Alpha Bravo Charlie Delta Echo Foxtrot Golf Hotel India Juliet Kilo Lima Mike November Oscar Papa Quebec Romeo Sierra Tango Uniform Victor Whiskey X-ray Yankee Zulu Numbers

SAARU

Secondary Attitude and Air Data Reference Unit

SANYA

A city on Hainan Island (China)

SANYA FIR

Sanya flight information region, (ZJSA), administered by an air traffic control centre in Sanya on Hainan Island (China)

SAP

Safety Awareness Programme

SAR

Search And Rescue

SARP

SARPs

Standards and Recommended Practices

SAS

Synthetic Aperture Sonar

A sonar system which uses sophisticated post-processing of sonar data to combine a number of sonar pings to form an image with higher resolution than conventional sonar. (Source: ATSB)

SAT

Static Air Temperature

SATCOM WG

Satellite Communications Working Group

Secondary radar

Secondary (or en route) radar returns are dependent on a transponder in the aircraft to reply to an interrogation from a radar ground station. (Source: ATSB)

Seventh arc

Independent analysis of satellite communications and aircraft performance confirms MH370 will be found in close proximity to the arc labelled as the 7th arc. The arc extends from latitude 20 degrees south to latitude 39 degrees south. At the time MH370 reached this arc the aircraft is considered to have exhausted its fuel and to have been descending. (Source: ATSB)

Shadow Copy

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SID

SIDs

Standard Instrument Departure

SITA

Société Internationale de Télécommunications Aéronautiques

SITREP

Situation Report

SKMM

Suruhanjaya Komunikasi dan Multimedia Malaysia (Also known as MCMC - Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission)

SME

Site Maintenance Engineer

SMS

Short Message Service, a text message

SOP

SOPs

Standard Operating Procedures

Southern Corridor

southern corridor

An area stretching approximately from Indonesia to the southern Indian ocean. See Najib's Statement 15 March 2014

SRU

Search and Rescue Unit

SSR

Secondary Surveillance Radar - A surveillance radar system which uses transmitters/receivers system (interrogators) and transponders.

STAR

STARs

Standard Instrument Arrival. A designated Instrument Flight Rule (IFR) arrival route linking a significant point, normally on an Air Traffic Service (ATS) route, with a point from which a published instrument approach procedure can be commenced.

Strayed aircraft

strayed aircraft

An aircraft that has deviated significantly from its intended track or which reports that it is lost.

SSWG

Search Strategy Working Group. Coordinated by the ATSB, the group of international satellite and aircraft specialists has been working towards defining the most probable position of MH370, at the time of the last satellite communications. (Source: ATSB)

A list of unusual words and abbreviations with their meaning, like a technical dictionary

Secondary Attitude and Air Data Reference Unit

A city on Hainan Island (China)

Sanya flight information region, (ZJSA), administered by an air traffic control centre in Sanya on Hainan Island (China)

Safety Awareness Programme

Search And Rescue

Standards and Recommended Practices

Standards and Recommended Practices

A sonar system which uses sophisticated post-processing of sonar data to combine a number of sonar pings to form an image with higher resolution than conventional sonar. (Source: ATSB)

A sonar system which uses sophisticated post-processing of sonar data to combine a number of sonar pings to form an image with higher resolution than conventional sonar. (Source: ATSB)

Australia Transport Safety Bureau

Static Air Temperature

Satellite Communications Working Group

Secondary (or en route) radar returns are dependent on a transponder in the aircraft to reply to an interrogation from a radar ground station. (Source: ATSB)

Independent analysis of satellite communications and aircraft performance confirms MH370 will be found in close proximity to the arc labelled as the 7th arc. The arc extends from latitude 20 degrees south to latitude 39 degrees south. At the time MH370 reached this arc the aircraft is considered to have exhausted its fuel and to have been descending. (Source: ATSB)

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Standard Instrument Departure

Standard Instrument Departure

Société Internationale de Télécommunications Aéronautiques

Situation Report

Suruhanjaya Komunikasi dan Multimedia Malaysia (Also known as MCMC - Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission)

Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (Also known as SKMM - Suruhanjaya Komunikasi dan Multimedia Malaysia)

Site Maintenance Engineer

Short Message Service, a text message

Standard Operating Procedures

Standard Operating Procedures

An area stretching approximately from Indonesia to the southern Indian ocean. See Najib's Statement 15 March 2014

An area stretching approximately from Indonesia to the southern Indian ocean. See Najib's Statement 15 March 2014

Search and Rescue Unit

Secondary Surveillance Radar - A surveillance radar system which uses transmitters/receivers system (interrogators) and transponders.

Standard Instrument Arrival. A designated Instrument Flight Rule (IFR) arrival route linking a significant point, normally on an Air Traffic Service (ATS) route, with a point from which a published instrument approach procedure can be commenced.

Standard Instrument Arrival. A designated Instrument Flight Rule (IFR) arrival route linking a significant point, normally on an Air Traffic Service (ATS) route, with a point from which a published instrument approach procedure can be commenced.

Air Traffic Services

An aircraft that has deviated significantly from its intended track or which reports that it is lost.

An aircraft that has deviated significantly from its intended track or which reports that it is lost.

Search Strategy Working Group. Coordinated by the ATSB, the group of international satellite and aircraft specialists has been working towards defining the most probable position of MH370, at the time of the last satellite communications. (Source: ATSB)