# Realtime transmittal of black box data?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 4, 2015, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/realtime-transmittal-of-black-box-data/716788 "2015-04-04T08:38:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2015, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/realtime-transmittal-of-black-box-data/716788/21 "2015-04-05T03:25:15Z")

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Another perspective on the “just get it close to good” problem - it’s possible for the failure mode to be something other than loss of data. What if the data is somehow corrupted, but not known to be corrupted? Now you’re analyzing a crash with bad data, causing it to take longer than necessary, and possibly coming to the wrong conclusion. And the corrective action you take for future flights is based on faulty data.

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