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Originally Posted by Rosstafari
Yes, that's correct.
Heh, notice that I deleted my post right after you read it... I wasn't sure if it was true for just general aviation or not. But the gist of it was that in interoceanic flight and flight over remote areas, aircraft can be in spots where ATC contact is not possible. Since the article notes that the Air France flight missed a radio call, though, they weren't into that area just yet. Still, that's not reason alone for alarm; radios fail all the time. Just not usually in big jetliners.
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why delete? i thought it was very informative....so im thinking since radio contact failing is "run of the mill" no alarms went off in anyone's head right away....and what bothers me is how fast this tradgedy happened....if the a/c was at fl 350 when whatever issues started happening, thats a loong way to fall....and wait did you say that af 447 was NOT in the radio blackout area? so youcould assume the poor pilot was trying to contact atc and if the message about the electronics not working holds true, then he would not have been able to make contact...
on airbus a/c in general, are all comms routed thru the main pc's/avionics? is there no redundency or backups like an analog signal or gps link up? i could be wrong but there are some technologies and networks like gsm that are global networks but then again i dont know how they would work at high altitude...