Personal computing discussed
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just brew it! wrote:Ahh, didn't realize they'd found the FDR.
credible wrote:I was hearing some talk, or speculation that the pilots were tunnel visioning on a potential issue and may have overlooked an even more serious situation that was occurring.
morphine wrote:In all seriousness now, it's amazing how much bad luck can come in one go. First the whole plane crash, and now the problems with the CVR and FDR. It's Murphy's law, applied to plane crashes
Forge wrote:French plane runs away into a mountain? Were Germans seen nearby, perhaps?
notfred wrote:There are 2 black boxes, the CVR and the FDR. They have the CVR, the frame was bent and battered but the memory module was intact and they have read it out, now starting work on transcribing. They found the FDR frame but the memory module was missing from it.
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TwoEars wrote:In any case these crashes are becoming way too frequent.
Kougar wrote:The Malaysian authorities handling of that air crash was very bad, that the French are making all the same mistakes regarding information correctness and distribution is downright bad. Doesn't anyone of those people check their facts anymore, seriously.
tanker27 wrote:It seems to me that 2 data recorders is an archaic system. In this day and age there should be multiple data recorders (3, 4, 6...) on a plane. And all located around various places not just in the tail.
tanker27 wrote:Well this mornings news cycle is reporting that it may have been a deliberate act on part of the 28 yr old Co-Pilot.
just brew it! wrote:There are others on a modern airliner, its just the CVR and FDR are the 2 mandatory ones. Being mandatory then there are various rules about touching them so the company leaves them alone. Instead there's usually a Quick Access Recorder used by the company to check the performance of the aircraft and of the pilots (e.g. did they stuff up the landing and the aircraft needs to be checked for bent bits) plus the engines will have their own event recorders. You don't want data recorders off a single protocol bus, if that bus goes down you have no data.tanker27 wrote:It seems to me that 2 data recorders is an archaic system. In this day and age there should be multiple data recorders (3, 4, 6...) on a plane. And all located around various places not just in the tail.
The tail section is the most likely to remain intact in a crash. I agree redundancy would be nice, and with modern electronics you wouldn't need to wire every sensor to every recorder, you could just have a data bus that runs from a central collection point to every recorder. (Redundancy probably wasn't practical in the past due to all the wiring that would've been needed.)
notfred wrote:This may yet be shown to not have been a deliberate act, the pilot could have suffered some kind of medical thing (not suicidal thoughts which are their own class of medical issues).
morphine wrote:Sometimes I just hate being right.