The feasibility study of airborne image recordings for aircraft accident investigation

Abstract

Several safety recommendations in the Final Report of aircraft accident investigation recommend that provisions for the availability of image recordings be included in International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) document Annex 6. The issues leading to these recommendations vary from a lack of data not available on the flight recorders to analyse human performance, to the accident aircraft was not equipped with a flight recorder, or where it was unclear what was displayed to the flight crew during the occurrence. Meanwhile, it was concerned that the protection for image recordings was not adequate and agreed to postpone discussions of these proposals until the conclusion of the work of the safety information protection. In the light of the progress made with the provisions for the protection of accident and incident records, these issues were again discussed the need including recordings of information displayed to the flight crew and bulk erase function for both CVRs and airborne image recordings. The discussion on the technical and social aspects related implementation of airborne image recording is still existed.