Originally Posted by
WillowRun 6-3
About several hundred posts ago peekay4 (IIRC) showed an analysis of the CVR 30-minutes duration after the go around (using evidently reliable time-stamp information). Wasn't it shown that of the 30 minutes of recorded data potentially available, 19 of those minutes had been consumed by necessity in the go around, second approach, landing and taxiing to the gate? This is not meant to excuse or otherwise deflect attention away from the fact that the CVR such as it was, was not preserved. But it is important as a matter of factual background and context to include this detail, that only roughly the final one-third of the 30 minutes would have been available in any event, just because of the aborted landing. Is this not so?
That is correct, but we don't know with certainty that it was a 30 minute CVR.
And, assuming it was a 30 minute recording, the dialogue from ARCHIE inbound would have been preserved, as well as the dialogue during the go-around and subsequent approach and landing.