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Data recorders or black boxes contribute to air safety by providing investigators with detailed accounts of events that led to an accident. The FAA requires the use of two types of recorders in transport aircraft: a Flight Data Recorder and a Cockpit Voice Recorder.

Flight recorders, one used only in accident probes, assume a new role: in-flight performance monitors. When accident investigators reach the site of a major plane crash, one of their first [...]

Byline: Kevin Maney In another 10 years, the very idea of a 'black box' flight data recorder on an airliner will seem as naive and outdated as a smoking section. [...]

The routine scanning of flight data recorders (FDRs) has proven to be a valuable tool in the detection of possible aircraft safety problems in countries such as Great Britain, Germany, France, and Japan. However, a study from the Flight Safety Foundation indicates that flight operations quality assurance could be enhanced in the US by such scanning. The FAA, however, is making slow headway for flight safety quality despite benefits., Flight Operations Quality Assurance programs are making slow headway in the litigious U.S., despite benefits proved elsewhere Outside the U.S., flight-data recorders (LI)Rs) are more than accident or incident investigation [...]

Scientific method underpins the Lebanese report on Ethiopian Airlines' 2010 crash - and gives the lie to conspiracy theories. Now it is time for humility, and action to avoid any [...]

operations david kaminski-morrow london Cluster analysis of the myriad parameters accessible on flight-data recorders could provide a valuable insight into operational performance, with a view to accident prevention, research from [...]

Byline: John Croft Washington How does fatigue really affect flightcrews? EasyJet staff are to be monitored by NASA in a bid to measure risks Gareth JJ Burgess/Rex Features The first [...]

NTSB interviews reveal that debate about new scheduling distracted Northwest captain and first officer US investigators say the two pilots on a Northwest Airlines Airbus A320 that was out of [...]

US air taxi operator SATSair by year's end will have its entire fleet of 26 Cirrus SR22s equipped for wireless transfer of predictive flight data collected onboard with a flight [...]

System will enable crews to perform post-flight analysis using manufacturer's server Air Logistics plans to purchase 120 low-cost flight data recording systems for the company's fleet of Bell 206 single [...]

In ground tests and aerodynamic simulations, the NTSB proved that an uncommanded extension of the forward actuator resulted in exactly the same violent out-of-control helicopter behaviour as had been revealed [...]

Preliminary analysis of the flight-data recorder (FDR) from the Armavia Airbus A320 that crashed into the Black Sea in May has ruled out fuel exhaustion and engine problems as contributing [...]

Flightcrew have welcomed close operational surveillance for many years. Why, then, would a crew erase a CVR? Airline pilots have the most closely monitored profession in the world. If people [...]

After languishing for over seven years on the US National Transportation Safety Board's (NTSB) 'most-wanted'list of aviation safety improvements, recommendations that airlines be forced to adopt more-capable flight data (FDR) [...]

AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-(C)1997-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD No useful information is contained on the flight recorders from the two aircraft that crashed in Russia on Tuesday evening (24 August), it has [...]

Pilots of all European large commercial aircraft will have their flight operations compulsorily monitored and recorded by the end of this year, says the European Joint Aviation Authorities. The USFederal [...]

Several large airplanes have crashed in recent months, including a Malaysia Airlines flight that disappeared over the Indian Ocean in March and another that was shot down above a war [...]

The adoption of digital on-board recorder standard that is likely to increase the use of digital flight data recorders due to technological advances is discussed.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is moving to upgrade flight recorders in order to improve the quality and quantity of accident data collection and build safer skies. The agency's proposed rule that was published on 28th February 2005, calls for 'stronger' cockpit voice and flight data recorders.

An improvement in carrier operational safety has been observed through the quality control and cost savings brought by the quick-access flight-data recorders (QAR). A constant flow of information in the flight operations area aids flight training departments to monitor developing trends and change type conversion and recurrent training emphasis. QARs also provide help in the monitoring of engine condition and noise abatement.

Flight data recorders are being developed as important tools for aviation safety. Airlines have agreed to collect and store all flight data and use them to evaluate system performance and pilot practice. The information will be maintained by the airlines and will be made readily available to the Federal Aviation Administration, which has promised not to use the gathered information to discipline airlines or pilots., Flight data recorders that airliners have carried for years will soon have an expanded role in aviation safety. Airline companies will now collect and store all flight data, using it [...]

The widespread use of civil jet transports with automated cockpit control systems has made it slightly more difficult for air crash investigators to obtain information about accidents. Digital flight data recorders (DFDRs) are often the sole sources of information about crashes.

The article discusses the vital role that flight-recorder data plays in helping improve pilot training by helping them to understand how accidents took place and ways in which such accidents can be avoided. This is part of the use of evidence-based training to help provide as realistic a training as possible.

Improved flight data recorders head the National Transportation Safety Board's annual list of 'most wanted' safety measures. The emphasis on aircraft data recorders, otherwise known as black boxes, comes on the heels of the death of Commerce Sec. Ron Brown and 32 other officials while aboard a US Air Force T-43. The list also includes railroad collision avoidance systems and maritime safety standards.

The Air Force has attributed the absence of a data flight recorder (FDR) or cockpit voice recorders on the Air Force CT-43 that crashed Apr 1996 in Croatia According to cost. According to Air Force estimates, the FDRs cost between $2 million and $3 million. A commercial aviation safety official knowledgeable of flight data recorders insists that the Air Force could have installed a $25,000 six-parameter FDR for far less than its estimates.