UPS A-300 Crash In Birmingham: Will Black Boxes Provide Usable Data For Investigators?

So much depends on the electronic data captured by an aircraft's black boxes, the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder, in analyzing an aircraft accident and determining its probable and contributing causes. The flight data recorder of an Airbus 300 is capable of capturing hundreds of data parameters related to the aircraft's final flight, including critical performance of the Pratt & Whitney engines installed on this particular plane. This information is particularly significant ...