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Originally Posted by underscore

To get GPS data with the engine stats I think they would need to add a GPS system to the engines, since the engines and their system are built by RR and not Boeing. Even if they were able to do this, it wouldn't help in this case because from what I have read this airline is getting the bare minimum maintenance reporting (presumably as they are having financial issues, or perhaps they didn't see any added value) and it wouldn't have been sending any reports during flight.

The engines comunicate with the rest of the plane. How else do you think they get altatude and plane speed. Right now when a plane is over the ocean there is no way of tracking it. There should be.