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...William Waldock: There's a program called Datalink that's very much in the works right now; the airline industry has been talking about this for quite a while. The technology essentially means downlinking information from an airplane to a ground station...
...biggest drawback to implementing Datalink is setting up the hardware. It would mean building a ground station that could discriminate and collect data from every plane in the air. That would require a fairly complex system - and getting it in place would be a fairly laborious process...
...other reason progress has been slow on Datalink technology is that most of the time we simply have not had much of a problem with the current black boxes; on the whole, they've served us well. These things almost never fail in crashes - they generally fail only in fires. And I suspect that's what happened in the case of flight...
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