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Originally Posted by A Tupolev
The Helios incident occurred in crowded, well controlled air space. The Malaysian flight was in a part of the world with poorly controlled air space.
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The Helios incident occured on a flight from Cyprus to Athens, and the ground knew something was wrong pretty early on. There were areas where radar coverage dropped off - but the entire time, the Transponder was on. So it was easy to track. Hence why the F-16's were able to identify and intercept it.