Reply #9: I heard that the "frozen solid" thin had been debunked.. [View All]

[KDLarsen]

the coroner had found signs that at least 20 of the passengers were still breathing when they died.

As for why it's not sent to a satellite, it's too much useless data to proces. You're only interested in the data from the flights where an incident occurs, not the data from the other numerours thousands of flights that goes on without a hitch. I would personally prefer to see that all airlines were forced to use the FDR that could record the most variables at the time. I remember hearing about a crash in the US a couple of years ago (mid 80's I think), where the investigators were left with very little data to work with (ie. pitch, yaw, roll etc - no info about the systems etc).