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A comment on Alaska 737 cockpit voice recorder data erasure renews safety debate. Parent comment

Re:Alaska 737 cockpit voice recorder data erasure renews saf... by flandish on Monday January 08, 2024 @12:34PM (#38915337)
> privacy

That’s silly. And we all know it. Nothing in a cockpit is “private” in this regard when it comes to transport of hundreds of people.

> cost

There it is. That’s all it ever is. If the cost of doing it right is higher than the fines of gambling with doing it wrong, the wrong way will always be chosen.

This is bog standard corporate life under capitalism.

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Re:Alaska 737 cockpit voice recorder data erasure renews saf... by SoftTalker on Monday January 08, 2024 @02:00PM (#38916492)
This is incorrect. It's not cost, if cost were the concern we would not have recorders at all. Cearly the cost of a longer recording is inconsequential once you have agreed to install a recorder at all.

It is about privacy, it's easy to verify the history of pilot's unions concerns and objections.

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Re:Alaska 737 cockpit voice recorder data erasure renews saf... by flandish on Monday January 08, 2024 @03:50PM (#38917902)
> at all

Incorrect. This is a struggle of ratio between regulation and lobby..

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