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Why not have commercial aircraft transmit in-flight data via satelite or cell phone transponders to ground based computers, as a backup to on board flight data recorders? Imminent problems of critical flight data could warn air traffic controllers.

DaddyoJB, Nov 30 2006

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I has been mentioned before, and would be doable if enough bandwidth existed for all the planes in the sky.

classicsat, Dec 02 2006