Overwritten or Unrecorded: A Study of Accidents & Incidents in Which CVR Data Were not Available

In recent years there have been numerous accidents and incidents for which investigators were unable to retrieve pertinent cockpit voice recorder (CVR) data. As a result the International Civil Aviation Organization and the European Union are introducing new requirements so that, from 2021, newly-manufactured transport aircraft over 27,000 kg must be equipped with 25-hour CVRs. This study examined 15 accidents and incidents that occurred between 2014 and 2017. Five reasons were identified for CVR data not being available for these events. The study indicates that in a majority of the events relevant data would have been retained if 25-hour CVRs had been used. In addition, the study highlights the lack of standardization in the presentation of CVR data in accident and incident reports. In order to facilitate a comprehensive assessment of the new CVR requirements, recommendations are made about the CVR metadata that should be included in future reports.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20503-4
• Record URL:
  • https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-20503-4_63
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020.
• Corporate Authors:

  Springer International Publishing

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• Authors:
  • Cookson, Simon
• Conference:
  • International Conference on Human Factors in Transportation (AHFE 2019)
  • Location: Washington DC, United States
  • Date: 2019-7-24 to 2019-7-28
• Publication Date: 2019-6

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Edition: 1
• Features: References;
• Pagination: pp 702-714
• Monograph Title: Advances in Human Factors of Transportation: Proceedings of the AHFE 2019 International Conference on Human Factors in Transportation, July 24-28, 2019, Washington D.C., USA
• Serial:
  • Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
  • Volume: 964
  • Publisher: Springer International Publishing
  • ISSN: 2194-5357
  • Serial URL: http://link.springer.com/bookseries/11156

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air transportation crashes; Crash records; Data collection; Flight recorders; Metadata
• Identifier Terms: International Civil Aviation Organization
• Geographic Terms: European Union
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Data and Information Technology; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01880625
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9783030205027
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 21 2023 9:51AM