Sun, Jul 05, 2009
Technical Issues, Privacy, Data Protection Are All
Concerns
Airbus has launched a study for reinforcing flight data
recovery, including, but not limited to, extended data transmission
for commercial airliners, so that in the event of accidents,
critical flight information can still be recovered and released to
the investigating authorities.
Tom Enders, President and CEO of
Airbus commented: "Gathering information from accidents is vitally
important to further improve the safety of flying. Various
technical means for reinforcing flight data recovery and data
transmission to ground centers are principally available. We will
now study different options for viable commercial solutions,
including those where our experience with real-time data
transmission from our own test aircraft could support the further
development of such solutions."
The study will be conducted by Patrick Gavin, Head of Airbus
Engineering, and Charles Champion, Head of Customer Services, and
will need to address technological issues as well as data
protection and privacy concerns. Airbus will include industrial
partners, research institutions, and international airworthiness
and investigation authorities in this study.
Retrieving the DFDR and CVR when aircraft are lost continues to
be a major challenge for the entire aviation community. Today's
existing air-to-ground links for 'Aircraft Communications
Addressing and Reporting System' (ACARS) maintenance data
transmission do not offer the bandwidth that would be needed for a
fully real-time transmission of all the data stored in the DFDR and
CVR, Airbus said in a news release.
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