Flight Data Recorders

Foundation Endorses Deployable Flight Data Recorders 

Alexandria, VA, July 8, 2014 - The Flight Safety Foundation announced today its strong support for the use of deployable flight data recorders or triggered flight data transmission in all transport aircraft.


"Deployable Flight Data Recorders have been around for decades and are in use by the military and in many helicopters," stated FSF President and CEO Jon Beatty. "We have the technological capability and with several high profile events, including Air France 447 and Malaysia 370, there is clearly the need for a better way to retrieve the flight data information immediately following an accident."

The International Civil Aviation Organization is considering this idea as one of the options in a proposed amendment to Annex 6 (6.17 - Emergency location locator transmitter (ELT)).
The Flight Safety Foundation has published several articles about deployable flight data recorders in August 2009 and in April 2012.