Please excuse my naïveté but let me make sure I am reading this correctly…
We have experienced the first fatal accident of a helicopter with an all-digital cockpit suite. The accident may have have occurred in weather conditions that were MVFR at best. The CVR and FDR have been recovered but have not yet been downloaded. Why isn’t this community screaming? Heaven forbid it was an issue with the hardware or the interface that led to this event (not saying it was, just laying out the argument, lets be honest, MFDs do go dark), a data point that would (if the data is not reviewed) otherwise go undetected for some other poor souls to discover….
Is anyone pressing (manufacturer, crew families, etc.) for the data to be downloaded? Is there any way we can support these efforts?