Too bad this couldn’t be made retroactive to the “airplanes” that hit the Pentagon and WTC1/2.
So the previous flight crew can be held accountable for statements/conversations had. I fly an aircraft that has about a 16.5 hour range, I have an incident and suddenly the previous cruise is being looked at because of the statements they made with the voice recorder? Unreal.
Joe Biden: "That's almost an entire day's worth!"
Seems smart to me. We do have the occasional problem that results in “dead plane flying” (usually oxygen leak + autopilot). And really in this modern world hard drives are cheap, storage space isn’t a challenge. And as for the “previous crew”, well don’t do anything unprofessional and you won’t care.
What is a black box and how does it work?
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Gabriel Leigh
Updated: November 3, 2022
Just about everyone has heard of the “black box” on an airplane. The term tends to have strong associations because most of the time when we hear about the black box it’s as a result of an air crash. Here’s a look at how they work.
“Black box” is a common term in popular use but within the industry it is generally referred to as an electronic flight data recorder. That can describe either the CVR (Cockpit Voice Recorder) or the FDR (Flight Data Recorder), or a combination of both. A number of modern black boxes house everything within one unit. Either way, for redundancy’s sake, every aircraft has to have at least two onboard. And they do exactly what they say on the tin: these boxes are essentially heavily fortified hard drives that record everything about a flight on an ongoing basis.
https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/what-is-a-black-box-and-how-does-it-work/