Originally Posted by
ExSp33db1rd
ACARS. According to the film, ACARS indicated that the left engine was quietly idling all the time, and was therefore undamaged, and of course this was discounted when the engine was recovered and subjected to engineering analysis. In view of the fact that the missing MH 370 is being sought in an area derived from ACARS information - perhaps Malaysian Airways should ask Sully where to look ?
I was thinking there might be merit in this until such time that I realised that they were only tracking the "pings" to the ACARS unit and not the actual engine data unless I am mistaken... They only knew that the engines were running because the ACARS unit was responding until such time that it didn't. Then by tracking ping packet response times with latency calculations, they derived a potential position.