Comment from JF:
"... many accident ... the facts are not known or in dispute... years ... my actions recorded ... tried to explain why I liked that ... burned for such comments.... a privilege ... to read how well the crew conducted themselves ..."
During testing, the
cockpit-video sometimes offered the ONLY explanation for a mysterious response, even with a fully instrumented test aircraft (instrumentation or FDR always seemed to omit that one parameter needed to explain the mishap).
To support your argument for Cockpit Image Recorder (CIR) is this old case, an
investigator-err still
never corrected:
http://www.pprune.org/safety-crm-qa-...-accident.html
Just as our Respected Pilot Gossips spread the "Boeing Scenario" then, since then misguided pilots have persuaded unions to oppose the proposed CIRs.
[The USA's NTSB enjoys a "good" reputation -- mostly undeserved: The NTSB has no effective oversight, no independent "Court of Inquiry" to acknowledge staff mistakes (erroneous assumptions). The NTSB is currently tasked to
consider "Petition for Reconsideration" -- their system doesn't do that "reconsideration", once anchored to their erroneous "conclusions". Soon the French BEA will release their report on the high-altitude CRZ upset of AF447 an A330:
Some organization should
carefully contrast this
current French investigation (of AF447), against the NTSB's biased investigation of that B727 (TWA841/4Apr79) CRZ upset-RECOVERY.]