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Originally Posted by drcoastline
Why is the "black box" in a plane at this point? Every crash they wonder if the data is recoverable. With current technology you think that data would be transmitted someplace or to the cloud.
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If you have a smart phone, ask Siri or Alexa or whatever to display the aircraft overhead right now. There are thousands of airplanes flying at any one moment. Many commercial aircraft are out over the ocean, and the only place to transmit date to would be a satellite. Keeping a satellite lock while traveling at 500 to 600 MPH is not an easy task, and likely only the military or Air Force One would want to try.
The on board boxes are pretty well designed to survive almost any crash, subsequent fires or sinking to thousands of feet in the ocean. They can record a lot of data that no transmission would be able to keep up.