Page 13 - Data Recorders News Today

Becomes incapacitated before the crash. video can provide critical information for investigators. not everybody is in favor of this. brian has the story. >> harris, many pilots are against the cameras. they see it as an invasion of privacy. imagine a camera recording everything you say and do at your desk. they argue video recordings could be made public or leak online. pilots say current voice and data recorders that closely monitor all audio and data are sufficient. >> you have a recording of ...

Could be made public or leak on line after an accident. pilots say current voice and data recorders that closely monitor all audio and data are sufficient. >> you have a recording of everything the airplane is doing, every single switch thats thrown, every change in altitude or heading or engines or whatever else, or flaps. what ese do you need to feel comfortable. >> the use of video cameras was first proposed in 2000 by the national transportation safety board arguing cameras provide critical ...

Investigators, what stood out to you? >> what stood out to me was the complete confusion. the facts from the immediate -- the immediate facts that came out. nothing added up. nothing checked. there was a huge question from day one. we usually have a clearer direction quite soon as to we need to look at the aircraft and the pilots. this has been confusion since day one. >> do you think -- many expected the data recorders would provide more information. the voice recorders provided a lot of the de...

Suicide but all the evidence points to a suicide. >> unfortunately we cant put these -- this data recorders in peoples heads. pilots. only put them -- >> -- right. >> inside the cockpit. but that we have different rules here in the united states. you cant leave a cockpit lone and that maybe that would, you know, could have possibly maybe prevented what happened in france. >> well you would at least have had a chance to do something about it the pilot sitting in the seat having to get up to count...

Isnt that something that if there was an accident if there was some sort of reason to need to check that authorities on the ground would have faster access to that video if it was able to be streamed and recorded somewhere rather than having to wait to get the data recorders? >> well its a very interesting idea and one that i think should be investigated but, again, the devils in the details. if we start streaming, especially video from every single flight at any given time theres anywhere from ...

Suicide but all the evidence points to a suicide. >> unfortunately we cant put these -- this data recorders in peoples heads. pilots. only put them -- >> -- right. >> inside the cockpit. but that we have different rules here in the united states. you cant leave a cockpit lone and that maybe that would, you know, could have possibly maybe prevented what happened in france. >> well you would at least have had a chance to do something about it the pilot sitting in the seat having to get up to count...

Into that maybe when the door opened when one of them came out to use the restroom someone else could have gotten into the cockpit. thats unknown at this point. we have not heard what conversations took place in that cockpit. >> its interesting, the french president francois hollande said today they are looking at the interior trying to find the interior of the flight data recorder. this is a flight data recorder. the outside, they apparently found the shell of it but havent found the important ...

Wrong. frank ses, thanks so much. were going to talk about that now and the hunt for answers. it really does center around the planes two flight recorders, the so-called black boxes. data has been retrieved from the planes cockpit voice recorder. moments ago at a news conference investigators said theyve not yet analyzed the voices on the recording. meanwhile, theyve not yet been able to locate the flight data recorder. mike after listening to the french press conference and talking about the ...

Are not black, they are really orange. >> this is really extraordinary. i have seen many data recorders and voice recorders. this is hardened stainless steel. it is armored to withstand tremendous pressures and to be deformed like this just confirms what a tremendous amount of pressure. but the data material is there. >> is inside. >> that material apparently has survived. the french have said theyve got the sounds theyve got voices theyve got alarms. >> this is whats left of the cockpit voice r...

That can change in an instant. >> it can be sunny and a bluebird day and an hour later, clouds are coming over a ridge that you didnt see. next thing you know its blowing 20 30 40 miles an hour and snows coming down on you. rains coming down on you. that will negate any kind of helicopter activity. >> reporter: those conditions stand between investigators and their ultimate goal to examine pieces of this plane and determine what happened to it. experts say if they cant get enough information fro...