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Application, we put a small box on the aircraft a very lightweight box, that connects to the same inputs as the black box. and should the pilot be uncomfortable or should there be an abnormal event that happens, there is a trigger that starts to do two things. it sends a message off the aircraft up to the satellites down to our base stations and then out to the airline to alert them that there's a problem on this aircraft. and then it sends packets of data so that the airline can start to look at software on the ground that give them an animation of what's happening on the aircraft. >> so what...
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