Safety alert aims to ensure critical cockpit voice recorder audio is preserved for accident investigations.

The FAA issued new guidance asking aircraft operators to save cockpit voice recorder data after incidents and accidents to ...

Medical transport flights (and virtually any flight for-hire, for that matter) are commercial flights according to the FAA. In this case the flight would be covered under Part 135, which does mandate ...

Families question withholding of cockpit recordings, seek greater transparency as AAIB says final probe report is expected in October. They question the investigation bureau's decision to withhold ...

Families of those killed in the Air India AI-171 crash demanded the release of the aircraft's black box data and cockpit ...

The FAA has finalized a rule extending the required cockpit voice recorder (CVR) data retention for newly manufactured aircraft from two hours to 25 hours. This change is intended to preserve ...

Navy divers have retrieved the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) from the wrecked Lion Air Boeing 737-800, more than two days after it crashed into the sea near… Navy divers have retrieved the cockpit ...

Federal accident investigators are pushing to retrofit current aircraft with better cockpit voice recorders, citing the loss of evidence during last month's blowout of a door panel on a jetliner ...

A Learjet 55 medical aircraft crashed into a northeast Philadelphia neighborhood shortly after takeoff, killing all six people aboard and one motorist on the ground, and injuring 24 others. The crash ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 30 (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal ‌Aviation Administration on Friday finalized a ‌rule to require cockpit voice recorders to retain 25 hours of data for all new passenger airplanes in ...

Ahmedabad: Families of those killed in the AI-171 flight crash here on Sunday demanded that the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) make the black box data and cockpit voice recorder ...

Click to open image viewer. This is an unflown example of a Cockpit Voice Recorder, similar to those that have been installed in most commercial US aircraft since the 1990s. It recodes sounds in the ...