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Why Airplane Black Boxes Fail

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Why do we still rely on 1960s technology to rescue missing planes? In order to find and save flights like the MH370, we must send data out in real-time.

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Once more it seems that air crash investigators will face a long, difficult and expensive search to explain the sudden disappearance of an airplane full of people over water—and it need

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