New Black Boxes Will Be Easier to Track in Plane Crashes at Sea

  • 7 years ago
New Black Boxes Will Be Easier to Track in Plane Crashes at Sea
" Mr. Sumwalt said. that When you put all of this together — the human, the machine, the environment, including the things the aircraft
manufacturers are doing — those things combine to make our aviation system much more safe than it was a few decades ago,
Airbus said that triggered either
Aircraft will carry both a fixed and deployable version, each storing 25 hours of cockpit
voice — up from about two hours now — and data on thousands of flight parameters.
Blake said that The first alert will go off within three seconds after the beacon is deployed,
Archival pages from The New York Times can attest that not so long ago, pilots were more likely to misjudge terrain
and crash into mountains, or even to crash into other planes in midair.