Originally Posted by
voyageur9
Given the sometimes very nasty denunciation of pax (perhaps selfish, perhaps panicked) who endanger the lives of others by dallying to get luggage during an emergency evacuation -- a subject dear to the hearts of some pilots on pprune who sometimes suggest prison or lifetime flying bans for those miscreants -- why is the no similar outcry (in the interests of safety) for the pilots who fail to secure the CVR after a screw-up.
There was no statutory requirement for the Air Canada crew to preserve the CVR tape.