Airbus Examines Live Data Streaming to End Riddle of Lost Planes
- Cost of bandwidth is biggest hurdle, engineering chief says
- Planemaker is also looking at self-ejecting black boxes
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Airbus Group SE is exploring ways of having its commercial aircraft stream more data on a live basis in order to help with the investigation of crashes.
Real-time transmissions would leave air-accident probes less dependent on recovering aircraft flight recorders, which can be challenging to find when planes are lost over the ocean.