01-06-2009, 11:10 PM
Can we talk about what we do know about this airplane?
That's pretty cool, so how come this airplane has automatic systems that dial home, but can't relay its location? And if it can, how can it be
"missing"? It seems to me, if the airplane could still communicate automatically, its position would be one of the first things it would transmit, so
they would have some idea of where to look for it.
Does anyone know how that works?
Also, the redundancy in the all-computerized modern airplanes can take care of single point failures, but what if the electronics are fried? (solar flare, EM pulse, whatever). Is there a "manual override"?
Post Edited ( 06-02-09 00:15 )
Quote:But about 4:15 a.m. Paris time, Flight 447's automatic system began a four-minute exchange of messages to the company's maintenance computers,
indicating that "several pieces of aircraft equipment were at fault or had broken down," he said.
That's pretty cool, so how come this airplane has automatic systems that dial home, but can't relay its location? And if it can, how can it be
"missing"? It seems to me, if the airplane could still communicate automatically, its position would be one of the first things it would transmit, so
they would have some idea of where to look for it.
Does anyone know how that works?
Also, the redundancy in the all-computerized modern airplanes can take care of single point failures, but what if the electronics are fried? (solar flare, EM pulse, whatever). Is there a "manual override"?
Post Edited ( 06-02-09 00:15 )
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