Unprecedented disasters nearly always yield 20/20 hindsight, and lead to narrowly-conceived, “never again” style reforms. But sometimes the lessons are more broadly useful. In the case of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, the most impressive fact few reporters choose to explore in any depth is that the Boeing 777’s engine was capable of communicating long after the pilots went silent. And the tragedy is that all the information it was able to convey was not actually transmitted.
Malaysia Airlines Managers Could Have Had Better Data at Their Fingertips
If only they had decided to access it — for just $10 a flight.
March 20, 2014
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