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Trying to get out of a storm they are really trying to save the aircraft. theyre doing all kinds of things, heroic measures, to try to save and aircraft thats potentially unstable. when youre in a storm and the engine is literally choking like youre choking yourself, youre trying to get power back. the aircraft engine is trying to get power back and breathe and get back into a stable zone. typically there are all kinds of things the pilot is trying to do to save the aircraft. >> in that case, he...

In mountainous terrain. the pilot communicates to a third party. the third party communicates then every 15 minutes to air traffic, any country. that plane is tracked along precise routes over the ocean and supposed to report every 15 minutes. thats the primary communication. secondary systems, and the 777 has so much redundancy, its hard to believe it would lose it all at once. secondary communication is a constant feed of data back to airline operations on every aspect of engine performance an...