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		bcraven on March 11, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: MH370 – what happened This suggestion mentions "300nm" and "50nm" distances. To my eye these are 'nanometres', so is this a typo or am I missing something?

t__r on March 11, 2014 | [–]

It's a nautical mile (about 1.8 km). A standard unit of distance in aviation.

bobbles on March 11, 2014 | | [–]

Generally nautical miles should be represented as NM, with nanometre as nm.

relix on March 11, 2014 | [–]

Nautical miles

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