Black Box Recovery - Why Not Transmit?

Eeyore wrote in
:



Government Shill #2 wrote:

On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 07:39:01 -0700 (PDT), "
wrote:

If this has been addressed before I apologize. With all the
sophisticated electronics on a plane, can't the black box data just
be transmitted as it's occurring to a central processing station?
Wouldn't this be a viable solution to investigate crashes, and allow
new safety measures to be put in place faster? Why can't something
like this be implemented? Isn't the data digital? If not, could it
be? It would seem an easier, faster, more efficient method than all
the time and manpower and expense needed to find these black boxes.

As electronics advances this could very soon be possible, if it's not
already. However, stop for a minute and consider the 10s of thousands
of aircraft airborne at any given moment in time. You are talking
about a *lot* of data. Data that no one cares about, except in
extremely rare circumstances.

Up till the end of March 2009 there were 2,317,500 domestic and
international airline flights on U.S. Airlines alone.
http://www.bts.gov/press_releases/20...bts029_09.html

Up till the end of April 2009 there were 25 accidents and 3
fatalities on US civil air carriers.
http://www.ntsb.gov/AVIATION/curr_mo.TXT

OTOH it may solve the few remaining mysteries and reduce crash
investigation time. Also, the 'black boxes' do not always survive or
contain retrievable data. In this case they may never be recovered.
The CVR would doubtless be especially invaluable as to the crew's
thinking.



Sez the planespottign fjukkwit.


Bertie