Qatar Airways plans to stream flight data from planes — mashable.com

Qatar Airways CEO Akbar Al Baker said the airline is working on real-time streaming of flight data. As the tragedies with Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 and Flight 17, and AirAsia QZ8501 have shown, many questions about what exactly happened can't be answered until black boxes are recovered from crash sites. Introducing real-time streaming wouldn't prevent accidents, but it would provide faster and potentially better information to those on the ground.

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