eli5 Why can’t black boxes in Aeroplanes update data to a cloud throughout a flight or after a crash has occured? why do we need to find the physical box?
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Data is being transmitted, but age of planes limits how much can be sent so we have black boxes (which are actually orange) recording every without a limit on how much they can take in about the condition of the plane.
Also, having a device on the plane as a back up in case of interference with the transmission due to position, weather, other signals ect. would still be something that we’d want on the planes.
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