Originally Posted by
underfire
Looking at several of the recent accidents, on land and in water, the FDRs always seem to be badly damaged, so to me, it does not appear that the current criteria and/or design works.
Doesnt this make an argument for a different design, or some sort of modification to these systems?
The recorder system and the data/memory system are two separate units. salvaging the recorder portion is NOT necessary to read out the data/memory unit.