Qatar Airways wants to stream live flight data
Qatar Airways CEO Akbar Baker said the airline is working on real-time streaming of flight data and that while it would not prevent accidents, it would provide faster and potentially better information to investigators.
Qatar Airways CEO Akbar Baker said the airline is working on real-time streaming of flight data and that while it would not prevent accidents, it would provide faster and potentially better information to investigators.
Mr Baker said last week that the carrier is working with a supplier to test a system that would send all flight data recorded in the black box to a ground station in the airline’s operations centre.
The first airline to install such a system is a small regional carrier, First Air, which introduced streaming last May to its fleet in the Canadian Arctic.
For First Air’s small fleet, the cost of installing the tracking systems was about US$1.8 million, with additional data-streaming costs of about US$22,000 a year.
Costs would be much higher for international fleets and outfitting every plane could take years. AGENCIES
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