Monday, January 12, 2015
Qatar Airways plans to stream flight data from planes
Qatar Airways CEO Akbar Al Baker said the airline is working on real-time streaming of flight data.
As the tragedies with Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 and Flight 17, and AirAsia QZ8501 have shown, many questions about what exactly happened can't be answered until black boxes are recovered from crash sites. Introducing real-time streaming wouldn't prevent accidents, but it would provide faster and potentially better information to those on the ground.
According to Runway Girl Network , Al Baker said last week that the carrier is working with a supplier to test "the system whereby all the flight data recorded in the black box, or the flight data recorder, is also received continuously during the flight on the ground in our operations centre.” Read more...
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