Mumbai: Globally, pilots are increasingly coming under scrutiny, with their training standards and health checks being questioned. This follows claims a co-pilot intentionally crashed a Germanwings Airbus A320 aircraft in the French Alps on Wednesday.
While investigators will rely on the cockpit voice recorder and the digital flight data recorder to ascertain the causes of crash, there will be no visuals of what transpired in the cockpit. This is because owing to lack of regulation and opposition from pilots, cockpits don’t have cameras installed.
Though cameras were installed outside cockpit doors in the wake of the 9/11 attacks in the US, there are no regulations mandating cameras inside cockpits.
In January, the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) issued a set of recommendations on installing new technology to locate aircraft wreckage and recover critical flight data. Reviewing its earlier recommendations, it said all aircraft should be equipped with “crash-protected cockpit image recording systems”.
28/03/15 Aneesh Phadnis/Business Standard
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While investigators will rely on the cockpit voice recorder and the digital flight data recorder to ascertain the causes of crash, there will be no visuals of what transpired in the cockpit. This is because owing to lack of regulation and opposition from pilots, cockpits don’t have cameras installed.
Though cameras were installed outside cockpit doors in the wake of the 9/11 attacks in the US, there are no regulations mandating cameras inside cockpits.
In January, the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) issued a set of recommendations on installing new technology to locate aircraft wreckage and recover critical flight data. Reviewing its earlier recommendations, it said all aircraft should be equipped with “crash-protected cockpit image recording systems”.
28/03/15 Aneesh Phadnis/Business Standard
