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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?
Unless there is a lot of jerking-off or running around in underwear going on, I generally don't see how even video is much of an invasion compared to audio...
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Tens of thousands according to the logic of all the non-hijacked flights, right?
That's also covering the TSA screenings, and every bit of the Patriot Act.
The success is self-evident. We're safer now citizen, and you have the loss of your freedom to thank.
Say you appreciate it. Say you love Big Brother. Say it. Say it. Say it!
Perhaps they are afraid the general public will find out why it is called a "cockpit"?
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For Fuck's sake, fuck off with your American spelling.
Of course, black tape is bad and duct tape is always saving the day. Everyone knows this. I question your nerdiness, aren't you infiltrating us?
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How do you even know there was a plane crash at all? Maybe the whole thing was made up? Maybe there was a crash but there were survivors but they were taken hostage. Maybe it was blown up by an American drone? Maybe the plane that crashed was a decoy and the real flight was diverted and landed in Egypt somewhere to join company with the plane missing from Malaysia? Who is on the ground doing the investigation? Can they be trusted? How do you really know what is there in the rubble? Was that recovered black box really from that flight?
So many questions. What are we to believe and not believe? I am not there to see it for myself, I have not gone through the guys trash or Lufthansa maintenance paperwork. I did not hear the recordings. Who do we trust to do this type of investigation? Is Bill more reliable than Joe? Who is Bill anyway? Does he have back debts and something to hide? Is Joe trying to make a name for himself? Was this crash crafted as a business decision by someone for personal gain? Insurance fraud, stock prices?
Are you crazy enough to trust your life to a wetware computer we can't even understand with any real confidence? There are 100,000 miles of blood vessels in your body, and if just the wrong one clots up, it's over for you. Many important components have no redundancy. Fatal malfunctions regularly occur with no way to repair them. Worst of all, you don't even have an offsite backup system for your most critical data.
That's basically what your body is. If you're dumb enough to rely on an organic life-support system designed through random trial and error, you deserve to die in a messy pile of organic failure.
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