Originally Posted by
Ian W
From way back in the thread.
Malaysian Airways did not subscribe to Rolls Royce or Boeing health monitoring. ACARS was set up to only operate over VHF and the only INMARSAT subscription that the airline had was for satellite phone.
ACARS was set up to make routine reports at 30 minute intervals.
There was no connection of any sort between ACARS and SATCOM this was disabled as the company did not want to pay the subscriptions.
Ian,
You have said this several times. Yet it (the ACARS over satcom part! not necessarily the RR or Boeing monitoring) is wholly inconsistent with all of the official statements by the Malaysian CAA. Do you have an actual source or is it a repetition of a prior assertion in the thread?