Agency blocks public access to accident investigation files after finding unauthorized approximations of CVR.
Cockpit voice recordings capture everything commercial pilots say and are extremely valuable when investigating crashes, but the NTSB rarely releases them out of respect for crash victims and their ...
The National Transportation Safety Board temporarily pulled its docket system offline after digital images were used to ...
Pilots’ voices from the last seconds of a fatal cargo plane crash have been re-created by Internet sleuths using software and AI tools. The spread of reconstructed audio recordings has prompted a US ...
On May 22, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) announced via X that it would be making a major change from the normal investigation process by removing dockets from public access online.
Flight data recorders and cockpit voice recorders are nearly indestructible. The recorders are widely referred to as the "black box" and are crucial to aviation accident investigations. Future ...
The NTSB has taken its public docket system offline over concerns that released sound spectrum imagery could be used to approximate CVR audio.