Why planes don’t live stream data

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The potential benefits of live streaming were widely discussed after Air France Flight 447 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean in 2009. It took two years to recover the flight data recorder.

The conversation started up again after Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared in March. That plane has still not been located.

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