Most of us back up data to the cloud, so why not airlines? We have known for a long time the design fault in having the black box on the plane. In an accident the box with all the secrets of what went wrong has to survive catastrophic scenarios. There are cloud options available like AFIRS via the Iridium satellite network.
“Canadian company Flyht Aerospace Solutions makes the Automated Flight Information System, or AFIRS, which automatically monitors data such as location, altitude, and performance.
And it can live stream information when something goes wrong. Flyht director Richard Hayden contends that we would have more answers today if that technology had been on Flight 370.
"We would know where the aircraft has gone, where it is, and we would have information on what had happened in the meantime," he said.
On a normal flight, the system would send updates every five to 10 minutes. It can be programmed to recognize when something is wrong, such as a deviation in flight path, and automatically begin streaming second-by-second data. “
Comments