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> In France, small aircraft like the Twin Otter were not required to have cockpit voice recorders, but Air Moorea had installed one anyway. This proved invaluab
by Firerouge 7y ago
> In France, small aircraft like the Twin Otter were not required to have cockpit voice recorders, but Air Moorea had installed one anyway. This proved invaluable to investigators, so for the sake of future investigations, they recommended that all planes with capacity for 9 or more passengers be equipped with a CVR.
But earlier the author stated that the pilot
> uttered an expletive, the only word recorded on the cockpit voice recorder
So it doesn't quite follow how this crash caused the new regulations
- lmilcin 7y agoThe aircraft was not required to have cvr but it had one, which was invaluable to investigators, and do they decided other small aircraft should also carry one.
- jobigoud 7y agoStringing together the two quotes, it would appear that the expletive, the only word recorded on the cockpit voice recorder, proved invaluable to investigators.
- Firerouge 7y agoPerhaps it is that simple, but it doesn't make sense to me how that expletive could have been so vital. I can only think that it helped investigators formulate the timeline of exactly when things broke. However, that doesn't seem vital to the investigation, or something that couldn't have been determined with basic flight data recording.
- 666lumberjack 7y agoThe CVR also records other sounds that are audible in the cockpit - alarms, warnings and notifications, but also the sound of eg. a control cable snapping. I'd guess that was what they heard that was especially useful in this case.