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> The reason interviews are so important is because there’s no cockpit voice recorder (CVR) of the incident, as that only records for two hours, and is then ove
by fallingknife 4y ago
> The reason interviews are so important is because there’s no cockpit voice recorder (CVR) of the incident, as that only records for two hours, and is then overwritten; since the pilots continued flying to London, this critical evidence isn’t available to investigators
JFC. How are they allowed to have such useless technology for something so important?
- Bluecobra 4y agoMy guess is that these rules are so old that it would have been a technological burden to keep longer recordings at the time. I wouldn’t be surprised if they are using a tape recorder on a loop.
- Mesopropithecus 4y agoTechnology is one thing. I'm wondering why the crew weren't required to hand in the CVR right after the incident.