Originally Posted by
evodiver
While I won’t speculate on the cause of the crash it is interesting to note that the global fleet has not been grounded. I know that the 787 sends all data back to our maintenance department in real time, even stuff we can’t see on the flight deck. It possibly even sends this data to Boeing. I would suspect that the cause of the accident has been known almost immediately.
Are you sure it sends real time. Most systems send burst transmissions at predetermined intervals. Real time transmission would get expensive.