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No automated messages from missing Boeing jet: sources
(Reuters) - The Malaysian passenger jet that disappeared on Saturday did not make automatic contact with a flight data-monitoring system after vanishing from radar screens, two people familiar with the matter said.
The Boeing 777-200ER is equipped with a maintenance computer capable of talking to the ground automatically through short messages known as ACARS.
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In the case of the Malaysia Airlines jet, however, investigators have no such evidence to help them discover what happened to the passenger plane, the people said.
"There were no signals from ACARS from the time the aircraft disappeared," a source involved in the investigations said.
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In addition to standard ACARS messages, airlines can install a system sold by Boeing called Airplane Health Management which provides real-time troubleshooting and allows Boeing to monitor the flight as well as the airline, according to its brochure.
This optional system was not installed on the missing Malaysia Airlines jet, people familiar with the matter said.
U.S. planemaker Boeing declined to comment.
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