It seems that the idea of aircraft’s black boxes is not serving its original purpose. The argument is especially valid in case of crash into deep waters. The black box is a storage medium for recording essential data about the operation of the aircraft. The recoded data is extremely important for analyzing the reasons which are behind the malfunction or the crash of the aircraft.
Obviously, it is not a good idea to keep that crucial information in such easily mis-located medium. It seems that the concept of the block box needs to be revised to offset its current vulnerability. What about a tangible backup system on the ground? Personal computers are often backed up into external storage devices. By analogy, the information from the aircraft could be transmitted through a satellite-based communications system to a reliable data recording system.
Having a back-up of the black box data might have saved a lot of energy and resources wasted in locating the flight recorders of AF 447’s crashed in the Atlantic Ocean early June 2009.
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Obviously, it is not a good idea to keep that crucial information in such easily mis-located medium. It seems that the concept of the block box needs to be revised to offset its current vulnerability. What about a tangible backup system on the ground? Personal computers are often backed up into external storage devices. By analogy, the information from the aircraft could be transmitted through a satellite-based communications system to a reliable data recording system.
Having a back-up of the black box data might have saved a lot of energy and resources wasted in locating the flight recorders of AF 447’s crashed in the Atlantic Ocean early June 2009.
Published at http://rate.forbes.com/comments/CommentServlet?StoryURI=2009/07/02/air-france-box-markets-equity-aviation.html&op=save&sourcename=story
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