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Old 14th Aug 2010, 09:38
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Svarin wrote:-

.... There is no proof that end of ACARS means end of flight. That cabin V/S message was likely acquired around 02:10, and could only be sent four minutes later.
I suggest you read Post #1611 and study the time-stamps associated with the various types of messages, along with transmission gaps, then see how much earlier the CVS message could have been generated. It certainly wasn't acquired around 0210.

Put another way; the longer the aircraft stayed airborne, the stranger the radio silence becomes. There were three other Air France aircraft all within 121.5/123.45MHz radio range during the course of the ACARs sequence.

It is a case where something needs to be made of little, yet a lack of precise timing makes interpretation all the more difficult.

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