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Originally Posted by Tombstone RJ
the voice recorder loops every two hours but all the plane systems are recorded for the entire flight and I don't think the pilot can do anything to change that. the pilot can't tell the black box to stop recording altitude, fuel, engine status, air pressure, speed, etc., etc., etc....
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Maybe the airlines will finally enter the 21st century and update their planes with hard drives capable of storing more than 2 hours of audio.
I would think they could not only install cameras on the vertical stabilizer, at the front, and in the cockpit/passenger compartment and offset the costs by offering access to the files for passengers after the trip for a small fee and/or just adding $5 to the price of the ticket. You wouldn't need to access it very often - but in situations such as this (or 9/11-style hijackings) you would have invaluable data in real-time that ATC could access during and after the event.
Heck, the amount of money they've spent on this recovery would probably pay for all the upgrades you'd need on every commercial plane currently flying.