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 ...

The FAA is developing recommendations to protect information captured by the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) of an aircraft that ...

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 ...

The FAA has finalized a rule extending cockpit voice recorder (CVR) data retention from two hours to 25 hours for newly manufactured aircraft. This change aims to provide substantially more audio for ...

A Learjet 55 medical aircraft crashed in a northeast Philadelphia neighborhood shortly after takeoff, resulting in 7 fatalities (6 aboard, 1 motorist) and 24 injuries. The crash caused significant ...

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 ...

Officials investigating the collision between an Air Canada plane and a fire truck on a New York airport runway this week revealed on Tuesday what was captured by the cockpit voice recorder in the ...

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 ...

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 ...