Strange. The Malaysian military denied rumours of them tracking the plane over malacca strait, so it looks like someone shut them up (cough cough USA).
If this indeed a hijacking, I assume that USA is trying to keep above information leaking in to the public domain, by not letting the...
Looks like it's not as James bond as thought it was...monitoring systems excerpt from RR site below:
On the other hand, the Airplane Condition Monitoring Function (ACMF) reports are limited to 3kB, hence the acquisition systems need to work within this limitation. Future systems are being...
The Rolls Royce Trent 800 engines (fitted to this 777) transmits data back to the RR engine operation centre back in the UK; however, I believe this data is too heavy to stream in real time, so the data is dumped overland where applicable. If I'm wrong, RR may indeed have valuable engine trend...