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.
I was thinking about this today. If you go into the mx pages on the FMC there's a LOT of data that's tracked. How much is down-loaded/transmitted IDK. Touch the yoke and the flight control inputs change. I do know that they get alerts of divergent performance before the pilots know anything.
If an obvious safety risk was transmitted you'd think the operators would have been notified ASAP. It doesn't seem like that has happened? So either no data was sent OR the data was normal.
So if there's been no Emergency AD, or similar requirement made, is the transmitted data/FDR not showing an unknown/unexpected event/risk? Are we back to Ockham's Razor - what's the easiest way to lose thrust? Was that accidental or deliberate?