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United States Patent 8,670,879 by Angelucci March 11, 2014, Automatically ejecting

flight data recorder is an apparatus for holding a flight data recorder in an aircraft includes a

housing that defines a compartment enclosing the flight data recorder and a flotation device

encapsulating the flight data recorder. If the aircraft crashes into a body of water and become

submerged, one or more releasable fasteners holding the compartment's cover in place are

triggered thereby removing the cover over an opening in the compartment and ejecting the

flotation device and the flight data recorder out of the compartment. The floatation device

then floats the flight data recorder to the surface of the water where it can be located by the

rescuers.

United States Patent 8,489,259 by Vinue Santolalla et al. July 16, 2013, Aircraft black

box Commercial aircraft having a black box comprising a flight data recorder connected to

suitable acquisition units for recording information required for crash investigation purposes

inside a container, wherein the aircraft comprises a crash detection device ; the black box is

installed in a suitable location for being ejected outside the aircraft in a crash event through a

duct having its exit in a fuselage area where the ejected black box would not impact on the

aircraft; the aircraft also comprises ejection means controlled by a black box ejection control

unit connected to said crash detection device, for ejecting the black box through said duct

when an impending crash is detected by said crash detection device.

Finally a non patent literature article entitled "BEYOND THE BLACK BOX" by KRISHNA

M. KAVI, published 7/30/2010 by the IEEE spectrum addresses similar satellite

communications concepts discussed in this application. The article begins "Instead of

storing flight data on board, aircraft could easily send the information in real time to the

ground". The article support the ideas and concepts of this present invention and also

acknowledges the most basic problem discussed in this application. The article is located at:

http://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/aviation/beyond-the-black-box

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