Posted on 01/08/2024 12:57:06 PM PST by george76
Overwritten?
Sounds like there was something on that tape that wasn’t meant to be disclosed.
there is no reason with storage as cheap as it is now not to have longer recording times.
I am surprised that Boeing has not done this as a standard option seeing as they have to do it in the EU anyway.
But unfortunately Boeing is no longer an engineering driven company.
It must be a fascinating life you lead thinking EVERYTHING is a conspiracy. The window (false door) blew out because someone at Boeing screwed up, and the pilots did a nice job of landing the plane. No one got hurt. End of story.
No, they record continuously like an old-fashioned loop tape recorder (I think at one time they WERE loop tape recorders), so whatever is older than X amount of hours is gone.
I got more storage than that on my cell phone...
Reminds me of the old fashioned roll towels made of cloth in a rolling continuous dispenser for drying your hands in a public bathroom. I never hear calls to bring those back.
The cockpit? What is it?
It’s a room in the front of the plane with the pilots. But that’s not important now?
Longer recording times should not be an issue - nor should it have been “overwritten” immediately after it landed after the incident.
We have all these agencies regulating everything and nobody paying attention to anything.
Sounds like they were using a tape recorder from the 80s.
Why can’t voice and data recordings be uploaded to a satellite so they don’t have to look for “black boxes” after a mishap?
No, the authorities (NTSB investigator) didn't request the recorder be turned off (circuit breaker pulled) when starting the investigation upon landing.
Incompetence is not conspiracy.
“Reminds me of the old fashioned roll towels made of cloth in a rolling continuous dispenser for drying your hands in a public bathroom. I never hear calls to bring those back.”
If you grew up and survived those, you are immune to everything...
There is a reason... just not a good one.
Boeing (or whatever Boeing subcontractor) has a piece of paper that says they get paid if they deliver a voice recorder with a two hour memory window.
They also paid for a quantity of two hour voice recorder memory chips to be made and pass through certification for use in cockpit voice recorders and are now only good to be used for US deliveries, so why not use them up first?
Ex Douglas air craft employees nod
they were not reused.
The used portion was rolled up and then laundered.\
Clean rolls were inserted.
I used to change them out.
>I got more storage than that on my cell phone...
Yes, but it is unlikely to survive a crash at 600kts+.
It’s got gorilla glass....
Proven tough
Sounds like Rose Mary Woods is working for Alaska Airlines.
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