Bearfoil Quote:
Why again is the DFDR inside the fuselage and not the Vertical Stabiliser ??
Don't they (VS) have a habit of falling off in flight ?
Recorder in VS would be bad for a simple reason:
Unless you can guarantee that it will stay attached under all conditions (proveably unlikely) you risk a worst case scenario of the recorder hanging on to the -floating- VS for a day or two and dropping into the deep at a location totally unrelated to the rest of the debris field.
In the AF477 case that would likely have resulted in never finding the recorders.