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Flight 804: Egypt fails to pull data from damaged recorders
CNN ^ | 06/23/2016 | Amy La Porte

Posted on 06/23/2016 3:24:11 PM PDT by Cementjungle

What sent EgyptAir flight 804 plummeting into the Mediterranean Sea last month, remains a mystery. Egyptian investigators have failed to extract any information from the badly-damaged memory chips of the crucial black boxes.

Defeated, Egypt is now sending both the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder to the BEA in France for analysis.
The BEA -- the French version of the NTSB -- are considered some the best in the world at analyzing this type of equipment. In a statement released on Thursday, EgyptAir said the French will "carry out repair and removal of salt accumulations."

"Then (the black boxes will be sent) back to Cairo to perform data analysis at the labs of the Ministry of Civil Aviation.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Egypt; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aviation; bea; coverup; egypt; egyptair; egyptair804; flight804; france; incompetence; jihad; ms804; muslimbrotherhood; ntsb; religionofpieces; terrorism
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To: Travis McGee
Faulty glazing on this one. Cockpit windows popped out (or in), incapacitating the crew.

Just saying, it's good to rotate made up excuses.

21 posted on 06/23/2016 4:19:13 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Tijeras_Slim

The ‘black box’ is pretty ruggedly constructed, but the data storage unit (what you might call a hard drive) is even further isolated in a sealed armored subunit box.

Easy to understand debris and salt accumulation on the outside, even the inside of the Black box. The electronics would be damaged as well. But the actual data storage itself ? I find that hard to believe.


22 posted on 06/23/2016 4:19:33 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Sales Rep
-- Instead of storing flight and voice data in black boxes, why can't a plane in flight just transmit/stream the data where it can be stored in a facility on the ground? --

If equipped with the hardware, they can. It's an added cost option, not just for the hardware, but also for data usage.

23 posted on 06/23/2016 4:20:54 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Cementjungle

Did they format the memory cards first?
https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/eula_windows/


24 posted on 06/23/2016 4:31:47 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: Cementjungle; Sales Rep

It’s a bandwidth limitation. ACARS uses a high frequency radio to communicate, which is ‘slow’ to transmit data but has very good range. Basically, if you streamed the avionics telemetry from a plane in real time, you would exceed the bandwidth capability of an empty cell phone tower - per plane. In the case of cockpit audio, there’s also the issue of privacy and confidentiality.


25 posted on 06/23/2016 4:31:48 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: SgtBob

ACARS is available to anyone with a subscription. You can read real time ACARS messages for any plane.


26 posted on 06/23/2016 4:33:10 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Cementjungle

if there was a salt accumulation it seems maybe the boxes have already been water boarded


27 posted on 06/23/2016 4:34:05 PM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....Opabinia can teach us a lot)
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To: mowowie

Egypt would favor indicating Islamic radicals that were routed from power.

The Islamic Brotherhood is egypt’s aworn enemy


28 posted on 06/23/2016 4:35:51 PM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....Opabinia can teach us a lot)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

statement decoded.....we don’t have the technology to recover the data....


29 posted on 06/23/2016 5:22:50 PM PDT by B212
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To: Spktyr

I know what ACARS is. Why, when I can plug my phone into my headset, would I want ACARS for my plane? I can ask my wife to meet me at the airport with a cold beer....hehehehe!


30 posted on 06/23/2016 5:39:30 PM PDT by SgtBob (Freedom is not for the faint of heart. Semper Fi!)
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To: Cementjungle

I’m amazed that a tech center like Egypt couldn’t get the data.


31 posted on 06/23/2016 6:49:22 PM PDT by DesertRhino ("I want those feeble minded asses overthrown,,,")
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To: All

There is no ‘Tapes’ anymore.
Everything is Digital.. RE.. Solid state.
The “Memory Chip” and associated “Motherboard” is encased into a cylinder that can sustain sledgehammer blows.. it is filled with Beeswax to prevent (sea)water from contaminating it as well as preventing “crushing Sea Depths” from collapsing the cylinder.
If the memory chip cant be read its because someone hit it with many many volts/amps to fry it.


32 posted on 06/23/2016 9:49:34 PM PDT by Robe
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To: Cementjungle
Egyptian MUSEUM pilot JIHAD SUICIDE by plane. Egyptian government will never release the flight voice recorder transcripts because they are full of "Allah Ackbar" and "I am killing you all in the name of Allah the 'merciful'", and all the usual MUSLIM TERRORIST rhetoric crap.

If Egypt released the truth about what happened no one in their right mind would ever fly Egyptian Air or fly to or from Egypt ever again! Since tourism makes up the overwhelming majority of Egypt's economy their government will never release the truth or the transcripts.

33 posted on 06/23/2016 9:55:57 PM PDT by Jmouse007 (Lord God Almighty, deliver us from this evil in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, amen.)
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