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Washington plane crash: critical data rests inside submerged Black Hawk wreckage

Aerotime

Parts that have been salvaged in the last 48 hours include the right wing, center fuselage, part of the left wing and left fuselage, significant portions of the forward cabin and cockpit, vertical and horizontal stabilizers, tail cone, rudder, elevators, TCAS computer and quick access recorder.

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Pilot, Know Thyself: Discovering What It Means to Be Painfully Average

Flying Magazine

Participating airlines equip their aircraft with quick access recorders to harvest and regularly uplink detailed flight data. FlightPulse is the newest outgrowth of a larger project, now about 20 years old, known as Flight Operations Quality Assurance (FOQA). What changed?

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NTSB Update Cites New Altitude Information

AV Web

Synchronizing available information from the Black Hawks flight data recorder (FDR) and cockpit voice recorder (CVR) is ongoing, as is the effort to transcribe audio from the cockpit voice recorders from both aircraft. The post NTSB Update Cites New Altitude Information appeared first on AVweb.