[Responsibility2nd]

Overwritten?

Sounds like there was something on that tape that wasn’t meant to be disclosed.

[billorites]

[algore]

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.

[joe fonebone]

I got more storage than that on my cell phone...

[rexthecat]

Sounds like they were using a tape recorder from the 80s.

[rexthecat]

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?

[Vaduz]

Ex Douglas air craft employees nod

[mewzilla]

For a different take on the so-called loss...

Missing part of Alaska Airlines plane is found in Portland, NTSB says, as new details emerge

From the link...

...“There is nothing on the cockpit voice recorder,” she said, noting the maintenance team went out to get the recorder around the two-hour mark when the devices begin a new recording cycle...

Right at the 2 hour mark...

How convenient...

[2Dreamin]

I would like to have someone tell me why the seat closest to the hatch was unoccupied. A seat like that with the extra leg room and window seat are usually the first to go. Sounds like Alaska Airlines and the FAA has a lot of explaining to do.

[minnesota_bound]

Any hard drive could record weeks of data. Why do they want only 2 hours of data?

[Mr. Jeeves]

This pilot’s union has always been opposed to nonstop recording or real-time feeds of cockpit conversations. They claim that an unlimited tape is an invasion of privacy and off-topic (or off-color) comments could be used by trial lawyers in fishing expeditions in the event of an incident that might be totally unrelated to those conversations.

Everybody forgets how trial lawyers were Public Enemy #1 before Obama appeared on the scene, and they haven’t conceded one ounce of their influence since then.