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Originally Posted by gmr324
I hope they at least find the black boxes. I saw an interview of a person who has invented a floatable black box. It would save hundres of man hours in the search time to collect the necessary crash data. Very tragic.
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what wonders me is:
the plane sent out several warning and maintenance messages automatically. since there is nearly 100% satellite coverage why not stream the information constantly to a server that now still goes to the black box (you can keep that for backup). the amount of data cannot be that big (some text information and real time encoded mp3 at like 64 kbit/s bitrate). if you want you can always just keep the last 30 mins like its done also in the black box and delete everything before automatically - but storage is cheap anyways.
if now planes get internet this should be a piece of cake.
like Formula 1 cars constantly send all their settings - for example