26 April 2018TSB Canada recommends mandatory installation of lightweight flight recording systems by all commercial and private business operators not currently required to carry them, in the wake of a fatal corporate jet accident.
22 June 2017Airbus announced that it is to implement new fixed and deployable flight recorders on it’s passenger aircraft.
19 June 2016Twenty-eight days after the accident, both flight records of EgyptAir flight 804 were recovered from the Mediterranean Sea this week. How does this compare to recorder recovery operations of other commercial aircraft accidents at sea?
22 January 2015The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) issued a series of safety recommendations to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) calling for improvements in locating downed aircraft and ways to obtain critical flight data faster and without the need for immediate underwater retrieval. The Board also re-emphasized the need for cockpit image recorders on commercial airplanes.
17 September 2014Investigators of the NTSB have analysed video footage of a fatal aircraft accident to determine the trajectory and speed. The video was taken by a passenger on board the plane.
6 May 2014The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) announced new proposals for flight recorders and underwater locating devices which aim at facilitating the recovery of an aircraft and of its flight recorders in case of an accident.
An accident involving a Cessna 208B Grand Caravan in Guadeloupe led the French accident investigating agency to recommend EASA to extend the obligation to carry a flight data recorder on board any aircraft in commercial air transport.
15 May 2013The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) is calling on Canada’s small aircraft operators to equip their fleets with lightweight recorders to monitor flight data, and is pressing Transport Canada to work with industry to make it happen. This TSB recommendation is part of an investigation report in which investigators could not conclusively determine why a de Havilland Canada DHC-3T Turbo Otter lost control and broke up in flight in the Yukon, Canada in March 2011.
The Italian accident investigation board ANSV condemned the dissemination of the partial transcrtipt of the Cockpit Voice Recorder of an Airbus A319 accident at Parlermo in 2010.
NAV Canada, responsible for air traffic control, demands access to the cockpit voice recorder transcript of the Air France Airbus accident at Toronto in 2005. They claim to need the transcript to defend itself against a $200 million lawsuit brought by Air France. In February 2005 an Air France Airbus A340 overran the runway on […]