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> In a crash scenario obviously power will be lost at some point and not return so the data is safe. Catastrophic crash scenarios are not the only scenarios wh
by vidanay 3y ago
> In a crash scenario obviously power will be lost at some point and not return so the data is safe.
Catastrophic crash scenarios are not the only scenarios where data preservation is desirable.
- xenadu02 3y ago> Catastrophic crash scenarios are not the only scenarios where data preservation is desirable. That's exactly why I said "In a malfunction scenario" in my comment. Modern aviation uses essentially a blameless post-mortem incident reporting process where pilots are encouraged to report when something unexpected happens - even though the airplane wasn't damaged and no one was injured. This has helped tremendously both in discovering issues that could be the cause of a crash in the future as well as improving training for other pilots. But very rarely is any data recovered in these situations. If things worked as I noted maintenance would have enough time to grab the data after the report without storing the recordings forever.