Indonesian aircraft missing off Jakarta

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Originally Posted by DaveReidUK

Yes, I think we've now established that the suggestion in the original post (which didn't quote the source, but is presumably this: ABC News: Even as Lion Air jet's black box is found, some answers may be back in the United States) that the flight could have been sending loads of FDR-type data that would be helpful to investigators via satcom in real time is almost certainly a red herring.

Almost certainly, but what might be very interesting and useful is if that system's data was copied off the previous night and has the info from the previous days flight. Data isn't a lot of use if it is never analysed so logically it must get taken off the onboard server sometime...

Incidentally, that incident you posted about with the failure to fully reconnect pitot feed in the radome, did the UAS manifest only beyond certain altitude or pitch levels? [I think some on this thread are discounting pitot failure because it would/should have been picked up on takeoff roll].