ADS-C msgs
It is mentioned in the BEA report that AF447 tried three times to log on to Dakar ATC using ADS-C messages. Does it necessarily require human intervention to send those msgs, or, like ACARS, this is something automatically generated?
I am wondering if the fact those msgs were sent really proves there was someone alive\conscious in the cockpit at the controls at that time, or it proves nothing at all? I am really struck by the absense of signs of life in the cockpit after 1:36