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AssigneeXwing, Inc.
InventorsTravis Paul, Marc Francois Xavier Piette, Maxime Marie Christophe Gariel, Anna Dietrich, Evan Michael Wilson, Craig Milliard, Ryan Olson, Phillip Jones, Adam Shelly
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An aircraft includes a flight plan and contingency data including a plurality of contingency landing sites. An aircraft communication system communicates with a ground control station via a communication link and detects a lost communication scenario in response to degradation in the communication link. An aircraft flight control system controls the aircraft en route according to the flight plan. In response to detecting the lost communication scenario, the flight control system routes the aircraft back to a last known location in which the communication link was not degraded. In response to failure to re-establish the communication link, the flight control system selects a landing site based on a current aircraft location relative to a plurality of potential landing sites including an origin airport, a destination airport, and a first continency landing site. The flight control system controls the aircraft to approach and land at the selected landing site.
An aircraft comprising:
A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising computer-executable instructions configured to cause one or more processing units of an aircraft to:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.