Why the Final Moments Inside a Cockpit Are Heard But Not Seen

jones_supa writes: There's no video footage from inside the cockpit of the Germanwings flight that left 150 people dead — nor is such footage recorded from any other commercial airline crash in recent years. Unlike many other vehicles operating with heightened safety concerns, airline cockpits don't come with video surveillance. The reason, in part, is that airline pilots and their unions have argued vigorously against what they see as an invasion of privacy that would not improve aviation safety. The long debate on whether airplane cockpits in the U.S. should be equipped with cameras dates back at least 15 years, when the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) first pushed regulators to require video monitoring following what the agency called "several accidents involving a lack of information regarding crewmember actions and the flight deck environment." The latest NTSB recommendation for a cockpit image system (PDF) came in January 2015. Should video streams captured inside the plane become a standard part of aviation safety measures?

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Re:And what good would it do?

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So you don't believe the prosecutor ?

You mean the guy who has no background at all in air crash investigation who has interpreted what he think he heard on a recording no one else has ever heard (apparently you can hear calm breathing in amongst all that banging) and hasn't investigated or ruled anything else out?

Let's just say there might be grounds for being a tiny bit sceptical and waiting for more evidence and information before character assassinating someone who obviously can't defend himself. But hey, he's a prosecutor and someone in authority and we all know they can't be questioned, right? I mean, you automatically turn into Fox Mulder or something.