Igjen spør jeg hvorfor en ikke ønsker å gå for en billig og god løsning, nemlig ELT som uploader GPS posisjon til COSPAS/SARSAT. Det vil også være mulig å legge en kopi av FDR/CVR på ELT som altså flyter og er "crashworthy" dersom havariet skjer på bakken og ikke i vann. Ved havari i havet vil ELT sprette av og flyter.
NTSB Calls for Better Ways to Find Aircraft Accident Sites and Retrieve
Critical Flight Data
WASHINGTON - The National Transportation
Safety Board today issued a series of safety recommendations to the Federal
Aviation Administration calling for improvements in locating downed aircraft and
ways to obtain critical flight data faster and without the need for immediate
underwater retrieval. The Board also re-emphasized the need for cockpit image
recorders on commercial airplanes.
Recent accidents have pointed to the
need for improved technologies to locate aircraft wreckage and flight recorders
lost in remote locations or over water. In the 2009 crash of Air France Flight
447, it took almost two years and $40 million to find the recorders.
Investigators are still searching for Malaysian Airlines Flight 370. So far the
search has involved 26 countries using 84 vessels and numerous aircraft.
"Technology has reached a point where we shouldn't have to search
hundreds of miles of ocean floor in a frantic race to find these valuable
boxes,'' said NTSB Acting Chairman Christopher A. Hart. "In this day and age,
lost aircraft should be a thing of the past."
Last October, the NTSB
held a forum, Emerging Flight Data and Locator Technology, which explored these
issues in detail.
Among the recommendations to the FAA are to equip
commercial airplanes with a tamper-resistant method to broadcast to a ground
station sufficient information to establish the location where an aircraft
terminates flight as a result of an accident within six nautical miles of the
point of impact.
The NTSB also called for the FAA to coordinate with
other regulatory authorities and the International Civil Aviation Organization
to harmonize implementation of several of these recommendations.
The NTSB
also repeated recommendations for a crash-protected image recording system that
would record the cockpit environment during the last two hours of a
flight.
A link to the recommendation letter can be found here:
go.usa.gov/Jsaz
A link to the recorder forum page is here:
go.usa.gov/JsCW
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