Crowd-sourced data helping to keep aircraft flying

Aircraft manufacturers and suppliers are starting to use crowd-sourced data to detect wear, schedule preventative maintenance and avoid costly failures. Steve Nichols reports. The current thinking is, that by pooling sensor data across an airline, or even across an aircraft type, problems can be...

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