think outside the box#2
マレーシア航空の機体消失に関して，衛星データを用いて調査を行うというのは今までにない試みであるそうです。記事の中に出てくる”think outside the box”が気になりました。
『Wisdom英和辞典（第三版）』（三省堂）で調べると「全く別の観点で考える」という意味がありました。孫引きになり恐縮ですが，このサイトで引用されている辞書では「独創的な」という訳が理由と共に書かれておりますhttp://makoto8128.blogspot.jp/2008/02/outside-box.html。
各国のレーダーを用いて調査をするということは自国だけでは対応できないということを表明することにも繋がるので今まで行われてこなかったのでしょうか。（Ume）
Searchers Relying on Satellite Data to Find Plane
Authorities now believe someone on board the Boeing 777 shut down part of the aircraft's messaging system about the same time the plane with 239 people on board disappeared from civilian radar. But an Inmarsat satellite was able to automatically connect with a portion of the messaging system that remained in operation, similar to a phone call that just rings because no one is on the other end to pick it up and provide information. No location information was exchanged, but the satellite continued to identify the plane once an hour for four to five hours after it disappeared from radar screens.
Based on the hourly connections with the plane, described by a U.S. official as a "handshake," the satellite knows at what angle to tilt its antenna to be ready to receive a message from the plane should one be sent. Using that antenna angle, along with radar data, investigators have been able to draw two vast arcs, or "corridors" — a northern one from northern Thailand through to the border of the Central Asian countries Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, and a southern one from Indonesia to the southern Indian Ocean. The plane is believed to be somewhere along those arcs.
Air crash investigators have never used this kind of satellite data before to try to find a missing plane, but after pursing other leads it's the best clue left.
"The people that are doing this are thinking outside the box. They're using something that wasn't designed to be used this way, and it seems to be working," said William Waldock, who teaches accident investigation at the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Arizona. "In terms of search and rescue, they're probably going to have rewrite the book after this."
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/searchers-relying-satellite-data-find-plane-22933774
