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Old 13th Sep 2002, 16:39
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Boyd Munro
 
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What Coroner Hope wants

Hello Blue Hauler,

VH-SKC flew on for many hours after Coroner Hope found that all occupants were dead.

What Coroner Hope wants is some sort of recording device that will provide answers, and one which held only the last 30 minutes would not have provided any. He has asked for a new kind of device.

What CASA is going to discover is that 12-hour audio/video recorders are now widely available and affordable - indeed thay are already in a large proportion of Sydney's taxi fleet. And, let's face it, an audio recorder is not usually going to be of much use in a single-crew aircraft - you'll need a video recorder as well.

There is real risk here.

Boyd Munro

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