Diversification, Svarin;
This implies that much of the speculation on this thread and on a.net is based in incomplete info (may be even misleading?)
I wonder why you are both convinced that there is a heap more information associated with the ACARS messages? Before you leap into answering that, just consider the following:-
- Why has the BEA gone to so much trouble in both its Interim Reports (in conjunction with Airbus) to interpret and explain to the best of its ability the "limited" information those messages portrayed?
- Did they not expand thoroughly the data fields associated with each message?
- How much more data are you proposing was actually sent?
- Why were the messages sequenced and timed the way they were at receipt?
Well you can't expand upon that, because there wasn't enough time (as has been explained in the reports) for any further data to be sent, and that was due to the ACARS protocol/SATCOM link speed.
I'm not disputing that we don't know if there had been a preflight software update to the ADIRUs, but surely if there was, that would have been raised by the BEA and an AD issued if other aircraft had received the same update. Likewise, the facts (as are known) have been dissected and speculated upon '
ad infinitum' in this and other forums, but at this late stage to suggest that there is "
non divulged data" associated with the ACARS messages, is IMO approaching the realms of fantasy.
mm43