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 ...

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 ...

A Learjet 55 medical aircraft crashed into a northeast Philadelphia neighborhood, resulting in seven fatalities (six aboard, one motorist) and 24 injuries. The incident, occurring minutes after ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A commercial aircraft approaches to land at San Diego International Airport, in San Diego, California, U.S., January 6, 2022.

The FAA has finalized a rule extending the required cockpit voice recorder (CVR) retention from two hours to 25 hours for newly manufactured aircraft already subject to CVR equipage. This change aims ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The deadly Air India crash has reignited a decades-old debate in the aviation industry over cockpit video recorders. International ...

The deadly Air India crash last month has renewed a decades-old debate in the aviation industry over installing video cameras monitoring airline pilot actions to complement the cockpit voice and ...

WASHINGTON – Searchers today found the flight data and cockpit voice recorders from the hijacked plane that flew into the Pentagon and exploded three days earlier, Department of Defense officials said ...

Explore the tragic timeline of Air India's Boeing Dreamliner crash as investigators unveil cockpit details and findings.

Credit: U.S. Air Force U.S. Marine Corps MV-22s will get cockpit voice recorders installed under an upcoming contract, 24 years after they were mandated by Congress. Naval Air Systems (Navair) Command ...