The Hazard Analysis 'and' Critical Control Points technique is the food industry's preventative risk assessment process. It was derived from NASA work on astronaut food (not o-rings).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HACCP
Nor does it have anything to do with Diane Vaughan.
Er now what was this thread about again? Oh yes...
topendtorque
It would be better to run a proactive FDR analysis programme after every safe landing to learn about near-missses than add the capability to transmit a few seconds of data prior to the occassional impact.
In this case assuming if the FDR survived as designed it either has data to answer 'why' or it doesn't, and If not, transmitting limited data before impact would not help.