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Jim Hall: No!
Just like CVR recordings, CCVR footage will be misused, that`s for sure.  The IFALPA and ALPA Intl. pilots will protest against this once again, loudly I hope.

Airplane cockpits need a camera's oversight: Column

By: Jim Hall

"We already require audio recordings. Video footage can answer questions that still remain."

An airliner takes off for a foreign destination filled with travelers either excited about vacations they've planned for years or eager to get home with their memories. Soon after, the first officer takes advantage of being alone in the cockpit and sends the plane plunging to earth. All aboard die.

This is the familiar scenario of the Germanwings tragedy that riveted the world in March, but I'm actually describing the crash of EgyptAir Flight 990 more than 15 years ago, which killed all 217 passengers and crew.

I was chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board at the time and our extensive investigation determined that this was the deadliest example of pilot suicide known up to that time. The circumstances convinced us that airliners should be equipped with cockpit video cameras. Events since then have only strengthened my belief that we need these cameras.

Following a crash, investigators rely on the aircraft's "black boxes," which provide audio recordings of the cockpit and electronic parameters such as altitude, speed and aircraft configuration. Sometimes these tools fail to paint a full picture of the events leading up to a crash. If black boxes were supplemented by cockpit video recordings, investigators could establish more precisely what happened, identify the causes of these tragedies and take steps to prevent them in the future.