Why isn’t audio in commercial airline cockpits recorded and streamed back to a control tower?

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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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Have you ever used a satellite phone? They sound like absolute garbage. Very little of the world is covered in high speed internet that would make ground based uploading possible. It’s just not worth it to record and upload everything when there are a handful of plane crashes per year. They also have to find the flight data recorder anyways.

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