CNN —Running to the tail of Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner is an umbilical cord carrying a rapid play-by-play of virtually every flight feature.
The 787 Dreamliner — one of Boeing’s more recently developed aircraft — feeds data into the flight data recorder through a system called the Common Data Network, which some compare to the human body’s central nervous system.
The Federal Aviation Administration used this data after ungrounding Boeing’s 737 Max in late 2020 to track every Max flight.
Some aircraft also carry a Quick Access Recorder (QAR) that is not hardened like the FDR but tracks the same data.
When US Air flight 427 crashed three years later near Pittsburgh, the FDR recorded 11 parameters.
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