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Old 11th Feb 2015, 13:33
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chuks
 
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A Cockpit Voice Recorder is really there to aid in crash investigation. If the authorities want to, then I suppose they could release the CVR recording or its transcript to the general public ahead of the full report, which usually takes at least a year to prepare, but that might not be a good idea.

For one thing, in this case I suppose the crew were speaking Tawainese, so that most of us would need a translation to understand what was said. Too, we would usually need to combine the translated CVR transcript with the FDR data to see both what was said, but also what was done.

For instance, hypothetically, perhaps the CVR shows the PF commanding "Shut down Engine Number Two," but then the FDR shows the left engine, the wrong one, being shut down by the PNF. In a situation such as that one you would need more than just the CVR to understand what happened.
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