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- In article <airliners.1993.104@ohare.Chicago.COM> ak336@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (John Dill) writes:
- >
- > In relating my story about the incident over Detroit I perhaps gave the
- >wrong (editorial) impression of my feelings about the crew's actions.
- > I too agree that any intentional act by a flight crew that places the
- >passsengers in harm's way should not be condoned. My comment about the
- >crew "saving the day" had more to do with the quick thinking they exhibited
- >while in a supersonic dive from 41,000' in a Boeing 727.
- > I also wish to make clear that erasing flight data recorder or cockpit
- >voice recorder is illegal and I don't condone either action.
-
- Not necessarily. Once the plane is parked at the gate, and the parking
- brake set, the captain is entitled - legally - to erase the cockpit voice
- recorder. The usual 5 channel flight data recorder installed on the trusty
- '27 won't have any incriminating data on it, and I don't believe the
- captain has the ability to erase it. Besides, they used to only record
- about the last thirty minutes anyway. If it took more than thirty minutes
- from initiation of the incident to parking, the data recorder has already
- overwritten what little data it stored anyway.
-
- --
- Terry
- drinkard@bcstec.boeing.com
- "Anyone who thinks they can hold the company responsible for what I say has
- more lawyers than sense."
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