[Bigbrown]

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.

[Bigbrown]

Crews, not cruise!

[Bob434]

Yep- gonna need a good lawyer to combat attempts to link past conversations with an accident that happened the next day now evidently.

IS getting harder and harder to “prove one’s innocence” thEse days even though by law it is the prosecution that is supposed to prove guilt- not the other way around.

It seems that Now they will have an easier time “proving” guilt, and the defendant a harder time proving innocence when a prosecution takes statemts totslly out of context, from previous conversations no less tO support their charge of recklessness or whatever.

[Laslo Fripp]

Are you the guy/gal that flies over my house every morning at 0410 with all those packages?

KMHT

[exDemMom]

I didn't know that conversations were also recorded in the black boxes. I thought it was just parametric data related to the plane's control systems.

In the cases where it seems that the pilot intentionally crashed the plane because of depression or ideological reasons, wouldn't those conversations help to elucidate why the pilot took such action?

According to Wikipedia "Suicide by pilot", intentional pilot crashes are the second leading cause of airplane crashes. That's kind of scary.

[scrabblehack]

Does the black box continue to record after the crash? So if it isn’t recovered until 23 hours after the crash, it could all be erased?

[Political Junkie Too]

I have an incident and suddenly the previous cruise is being looked at because of the statements they made with the voice recorder? Unreal.

Is there something really wrong with that?

During an incident investigation, don't they look at prior maintenance records, turnover logs, pilot logs, etc.?

Wouldn't you want investigators to know if a prior crew encountered a similar incident and failed to note it in the logs for the next crew or submit a maintenance request?

Or maybe I've been watching too much Air Disasters on the Smithsonian Channel. I used to do some root cause analysis at my company, and that show is a primer on the investigative process.

-PJ

[Wildbill22]

Well, I think there is either legislation or maybe it is my particular company labor agreement that stipulates that nothing unrelated to any NTSB accident or incident report can be used against the pilots.

I could be wrong, and I am about to retire so I care even less, but that is what I recall.