bsieker said
D.S.,
sorry, I may have missed it, but where does it say that Boeing initiated or received, or tried to receive/transmit anything to/from this airplane?
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My understanding is that the pings are only between that satcom installation on the aircraft and INMARSAT. If someone else initiated these pings I must have missed something.
I have read in numerous reports the pings are from an attempted Boeing AHM connection, and that it doesn't include data because MAH is not signed up for that report.
That does not mean Boeing initiated contact, just what would regularly be a scheduled contact was attempted regarding a Boeing report that would normally be transmitted to MAH if the contract had been purchased.
I would have to assume Boeing has a contract with INMARSAT in which each of their planes automatically attempts this contact, making future purchase/cessation of the airlines contract to receive said data easy to accomplish with a simple update.