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Old 03-08-2014, 10:11 AM   #27
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A person I follow on Twitter who does some work in the aviation world tweeted the Air France flight that crashed in 2009 had failure reports and warnings before it crashed. There appears to be no such warnings or failures from the Malaysia flight. Makes you wonder what happened.
That was because the Air France aircraft had ACARS messages being transmitted to the AF control centre, I do believe I have read that this aircraft did not have that option. So we have no reports of that nature in this case.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraf...porting_System
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