The Boeing Company

Jessie Turner

Timothy Allen Murphy

Charles Otis Adler

Timothy Edward Jackson

Steven Mark Walstrom

William R Richards

Ted Eigle

Fadl Ibrahim Khalil

Ricardo Messias Fricks

John Harvey Roberson

Thomas Jose Thalakottur

Daniel Bruce Holton

William Raymond Richards

A system and method for autonomous distress tracking of an aircraft. An automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast transceiver is configured to transmit an automatic distress transmission. A system controller comprises a distress identifier that is configured to determine when the aircraft is in a distress condition. The system controller is configured to control the automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast transceiver to transmit the automatic distress transmission in response to a determination that the aircraft is in the distress condition. The automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast transceiver and the system controller are contained within a housing attached to the aircraft on an outside of the aircraft.

Autonomous distress tracking using automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast

A method, apparatus, and aircraft tracker system for reporting state information for an aircraft. A state of the aircraft is identified using sensor data received from an aircraft sensor system in the aircraft. The state information is transmitted at a reporting rate set using the state of the aircraft identified from the sensor data, at least one of a crew command or a ground command when at least one of the crew command is received from a crew interface or the ground command is received from a ground source, and a policy defining priorities for reporting that are based on at least one of the crew command, the ground command, or the state of the aircraft identified from the sensor data.

Controller for an aircraft tracker

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Mukilteo, WA, United States of America

Jessie Turner