article_snippet: Another emerging technology that might have helped us know more about what happened is called AFIRS, the Automated Flight Information Reporting System, developed by a Canadian company called FLYHT.
article_snippet: AFIRS monitors what the flight data recorder, one of the so-called "black boxes," is seeing.
article_snippet: AFIRS starts transmitting key information automatically when AFIRS senses trouble or at the command of the flight crew or dispatchers on the ground.
article_snippet: Canada's First Air is among the first airlines to equip Canada's First Air fleet with AFIRS, which costs $100,000 per plane.