Malaysia Airlines Plane "Loses Contact"

[JuniorD]

I was surprised to see an acquaintance on the BBC documentary, lending credibility to what is pure conjecture at this stage.

[gamefreaks]

Mentour has done a video on MH370.

Still watching but super interesting stuff so far.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5K9HBiJpuk

[Brother D]

gamefreaks said:

Mentour has done a video on MH370.

Still watching but super interesting stuff so far.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5K9HBiJpuk

The radio interferrence is a super interesting aspect to this story.

It's highly likely the pilot pulled the circut breakers for the FDR/CVR considering the highly methodical steps taken to avoid detection. So even if the wreckage is found, you have to wonder what, if any, information could be obtained from them.

[trashbat]

eharding said:

Clearly, it would be technically possible to retrofit every airline CVR to use more modern technology, but from a commercial or safety perspective it simply isn't worth it - invariably if the recorder has been in a state where the data of interest has been over-written, the crew is still in a position to help the investigators looking into whatever the incident was (and if they're not being co-operative, and the CVR evidence is more about establishing culpability, then the actionable safety failures are organisational and managerial, and happened long before the crew got into the aircraft).

I believe that generally if a CVR fails before flight the aircraft is still allowed to operate a (small) number of sectors before the equipment has to be fixed, recognition that a broken CVR isn't going to make the aircraft itself any less safe to operate.

They already did do a retrofit. EASA required that all 30 minute CVRs were upgraded to 2 hours (and solid state) by 2019. So another retrofit to the new standard of 25 hours is feasible.