Originally Posted by
D.S.
Lost in Saigon
That's kind of the whole point of ACARS - to report issues. If a fire affected a single system somewhere, ACARS would have reported it.
See, for example, the 25 automatic messages sent from AF447's ACARS system during its 4 minutes of catastrophic issues
As I said before, I have no intimate knowledge of Malaysia's ACARS reporting capability. I doubt you do either. From what I have seen so far, I bet the Malaysians don't even know....
In any case..... If the fire did NOT effect another system, ACARS would NOT have reported it.
Is that not true?