Safety alert aims to ensure critical cockpit voice recorder audio is preserved for accident investigations.

The FAA is urging operators to ensure they have sufficient protocols in place for preserving cockpit voice recorder (CVR) data following incidents that may trigger safety-related investigations.

Cottman Avenue in northern Philadelphia is a busy but slightly down-on-its-luck urban thoroughfare that has had a strange couple of years. You might remember the truly bizarre 2020 press conference ...

Federal accident investigators are pushing to retrofit current aircraft with better cockpit voice recorders, citing the loss of evidence during last month's blowout of a door panel on a jetliner ...

The FAA has finalized a rule extending cockpit voice recorder (CVR) data retention from two hours to 25 hours for newly manufactured aircraft. This change aims to provide substantially more audio for ...

The cockpit voice recorder (CVR) of the crashed UPS jet revealed a repeating bell sound 37 seconds into the takeoff roll, persisting for 25 seconds during which the crew attempted to control the ...

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Ahmedabad: Officials have confirmed the recovery of the Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) from the Boeing 787 Dreamliner that crashed in Ahmedabad. Investigators believe the CVR will provide crucial ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dialogue heard on a cockpit voice recording indicates that the captain of the Air India flight that crashed in June, killing 260 ...

Investigators have recovered the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) from the crashed Air India flight, a key step in uncovering what caused last week's deadly accident. The London-bound Air India aircraft, ...

Click to open image viewer. This is an unflown example of a Cockpit Voice Recorder, similar to those that have been installed in most commercial US aircraft since the 1990s. It recodes sounds in the ...

Medical transport flights (and virtually any flight for-hire, for that matter) are commercial flights according to the FAA. In this case the flight would be covered under Part 135, which does mandate ...