Re:Ask HN: Why do airlines still use "black boxes" ?
by dmv on Wednesday June 03, 2009 @04:40PM
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or you are flying through an electrical storm...
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Re:Ask HN: Why do airlines still use "black boxes" ?
by timr on Wednesday June 03, 2009 @05:10PM
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Yep. Commercial airliners already have a number of redundant power sources, located in different parts of the plane, wired in different pathways for maximum operational redundancy. There were even studies to done to find the parts of a jet that are least affected by eddy currents due to electrical storms....yet the black box can operate even when those different redundant systems fail.