Why We Haven't Built A Better Black Box(popsci.com)
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Why We Haven't Built A Better Black Box
http://www.popsci.com/article/technology/why-we-havent-built-better-black-box?dom=PSC&loc=poprail&lnk=10&con=why-we-havent-built-a-better-black-box
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This whole scenario can be avoided. Instead, a constant contact system over low bandwidth satellite should permanently archive plane vital stats to multiple geographically-diverse datacenters to remove the absolutely unnecessary and antiquated dependency on losing a physical "single source of truth." The blackbox is as obsolete as a library card file system, but should be kept as a secondary system.
As i understood, the main issue here is cost .. providing satellite links to each and every plane flying out there and to datacenters will be expensive.