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

Indonesian divers on Tuesday retrieved the cockpit voice recorder from the wreckage of an AirAsia plane that crashed into the Java Sea as the airline’s boss vowed to overcome the “toughest times” he ...

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 ...

US investigators have disclosed that the cockpit-voice recorder on the ambulance Learjet 55 which fatally crashed in Philadelphia failed to capture audio from the flight. The 30min recording tape had ...

Would cockpit video recorders help plane crash investigators? Experts are divided - The deadly Air India crash has reignited a decades-old debate in the aviation industry ...

The FAA has finalized a new rule extending the mandatory cockpit voice recorder (CVR) retention period from two hours to 25 hours for newly manufactured aircraft already subject to CVR equipage. This ...

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 ...

It's one of the most important pieces of forensic evidence following a plane crash: The so-called “black box." There are actually two of these remarkably sturdy devices: the cockpit voice recorder and ...

WASHINGTON – Searchers today found the flight data and cockpit voice recorders from the hijacked plane that flew into the Pentagon and exploded three days earlier, Department of Defense officials said ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The deadly Air India crash has reignited a decades-old debate in the aviation industry over cockpit video recorders. International ...