Originally Posted by
WHBM
Even more significant was the air rush sucked the emergency SOP checklist out of the flight deck. Which presumably contained the CVR switch off command. The crew had to do it all from memory instead.
One day the CVR industry will come up with an ever so simple way to avoid this overwriting. Goodness knows how often it has occurred in incidents in the past. I know the requirement is to maintain the last 2 hours, but that didn't extend to any instruction to start overwriting at 2 hours and 1 minute.
With just about every new aircraft having internet access on board you would think it would be very easy to stream the entire aircraft life history to the cloud (no pun intended) as a back up to on board orange boxes.
Or relegate the on board boxes to the back up role.