Medical transport flights (and virtually any flight for-hire, for that matter) are commercial flights according to the FAA. In this case the flight would be covered under Part 135, which does mandate ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rescue crews at the accident site after a plane crash. Allison Sales/dpa Brazilian authorities have recovered the cockpit voice ...

Indonesian divers on Tuesday retrieved the cockpit voice recorder from the wreckage of an AirAsia plane that crashed into the Java Sea as the airline’s boss vowed to overcome the “toughest times” he ...

US investigators have disclosed that the cockpit-voice recorder on the ambulance Learjet 55 which fatally crashed in Philadelphia failed to capture audio from the flight. The 30min recording tape had ...

Officials said the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder are now headed to the NTSB laboratory in Washington, D.C. They said what is pulled from those devices could help reconstruct the ...

Federal accident investigators are pushing to retrofit current aircraft with better cockpit voice recorders, citing the loss of evidence during last month's blowout of a door panel on a jetliner ...

WASHINGTON — Federal accident investigators are pushing to retrofit current aircraft with better cockpit voice recorders, citing the loss of evidence during last month’s blowout of a door panel on a ...

It's one of the most important pieces of forensic evidence following a plane crash: The so-called “black box." There are actually two of these remarkably sturdy devices: the cockpit voice recorder and ...

Honeywell and Curtiss-Wright have collaborated to develop the HCR-25, a new combination cockpit voice recorder (CVR) and flight data recorder (FDR) with 25 hours of recording capacity. This new system ...

The FAA published a finalized rule Monday that extends required cockpit voice recorder retention from two hours to 25 hours. This new requirement will apply to newly manufactured aircraft already ...

Cottman Avenue in northern Philadelphia is a busy but slightly down-on-its-luck urban thoroughfare that has had a strange couple of years. You might remember the truly bizarre 2020 press conference ...