I wrote this when AIR FRANCE crashed… it took to years to find the plane and the Black Boxes An airplane crashes into the ocean. Weeks or month go by when after great expense the Cockpit Voice Recorder and the Flight Data Recorder are found, or not! Or theyre found but they are damaged. Considering the fact that airlines have internet access on some planes (THE AIRBUS A330-200 being one) for passengers, (definitely a frill) why not have the Flight Data, and Voice Data streamed to a secure server. This data would be accessible immediately after the loss of a plane, because its been transmitted from the plane, in real time! The FLR and VDR would then be a BACKUP for this data. It probably would not cost too much on planes that are already going to have internet access for passengers. After all, live telemetry was coming from moon in 1969, with a lot less bandwidth I bet... we have the technology to do this. A good question for FAA, Airbus, NTSB dont youthink? __________________________________________________________________ BACKGROUND From an Airbus press release airbus/en/presscentre/pressreleases/pressreleases_items/19_Dec_03_Livingston_A330.html The Airbus long-range aircraft for Livingston Aviation Group SpA will feature the latest on-board entertainment systems (Matsushita 2000E), including SMS messaging and Internet access.
Posted on: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 13:10:05 +0000
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