[lacrew]

The reporting has been all over the map on this. Can you confirm/refute stories that state the AHM can:

- Send altitude data
- Send Direction of travel data
- Send positional data

Thanks

[robert14]

No, no, and no. If an airline does not subscribe, the data is not available. The tracking of the aircraft would be calculated via satellite ground tracks that actually received the pings from the Iridium transponder on the 777.

[robert14]

If MAL had subscribed to AHM all the data you listed would a have been sent on a regular basis to to Boeing server.