1. Method of identifying a flight profile of an aircraft, the aircraft including a centralized maintenance system and equipment including a component designed to measure the environmental conditions at or near critical equipment aboard the aircraft, the flight profile being a trend of values recorded from environmental sensors comprising a mechanical vibration sensor or a mechanical deformation sensor, on the aircraft during a particular flight, the environmental sensor having associated therewith a flight context, which is a data set recording one or more items relating to the particular flight, including but not limited to type of aircraft, flight plan for the particular flight, and trend of altitude values for the particular flight; wherein the method comprises: a. a first step of collecting environmental data from the environmental sensor of the component, the environmental data collected comprising measurements from the immediate vicinity of the component, the component being attached to or near critical equipment aboard the aircraft, the environmental data collected comprising mechanical vibration data or mechanical deformation data; b. a second step of comparing, using a computation resource of the component, values measured by the environmental sensor with predefined threshold values so as to store in a storage device the values that exceed the threshold values, the second step further comprising the definition of a curve defining the threshold values that is roughly of the same form as the trend of the altitude; c. a third step of comparing at least one set of values stored in the second step with the equivalent set of values stored in at least one predefined reference flight profile that includes an identifier, a flight profile representing a trend of values measured by the environmental sensor according to at least one item of information defining the flight context, each predefined flight profile including an identifier; d. a fourth step of identifying the reference flight profile that is closest to the set of values stored for the environmental sensor selected in the second step; and, e. a fifth step of transmitting, by a transmission/reception device, at least one identifier of the reference flight profile, identified in the fourth step, to the centralized maintenance system.