Originally Posted by fotoguzzi
quote: Flight data recorders and other applicable data and components were retrieved from the airplane for testing and evaluation.end quote
Would there have been more information available if the pilot had landed as soon as possible versus continuing to Atlanta?
Thanks.
Unlikely.
Present-day FDRs and QARs run for something like 25 hours before they start over-writing previous data. Older CVRs looped in 30 minutes, but more recent ones loop and over-write only after two hours... And in this case the pilots were right there to tell what happened anyway.
Even if they had landed ASAP, the rollback gremlin would probably have quit the aircraft well before....
On BA038 we've been looking at ice... which would have melted by the time the investigators arrived.
This time, we may be looking at ice again, or a transient, or whatever... it came and went.
So let's hope this time the rollback gremlin left a bit more of a DNA footprint.... I'm sure everybody would like to catch him... and wring his neck.
CJ