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   From: gov.shill@gmail.com   
      
   On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 07:39:01 -0700 (PDT), "alanryder@aol.com"   
    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/2009/bts029_09/html/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   
      
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