I’ve never understood this – I figured it must be because of pilot unions or something along the lines. It’s archaic that we physically search for black boxes rather than have it streamed. And to that point, why not have it video recorded as well? It’s a common practice across many professions – how there can be any justification against it?
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It’s actually fairly complex to do that because airplanes go in and out of range of towers all the time. So that means that all control towers would need to have a unified system that tracked each individual plane and store their recordings in separate tracks and then all tracks from all towers would be compiled to a single file that would then have to be accessible to their respective airline. This is far more complex than just being recorded and stored on the aircraft
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