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WASHINGTON, July 28 (UPI) -- The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board has renewed its call for cockpit video recorders to be installed in aircraft as an aid to crash investigators.
The agency repeated its 4-year-old call in Washington Tuesday at the opening day of a 2-day hearing into how to improve crash investigations, the New York Times said Wednesday.
However, the idea met with opposition from both pilots over privacy and airlines over expense.
Video recordings would be covered by the same privacy law that protects cockpit voice recordings from public exposure, the NTSB says. But Capt. John Cox, executive chairman of the safety committee of the Air Line Pilots Association, pointed to the voice tape from an American Airlines jet that crashed in Colombia in 1995; parts were broadcast by NBC on "Dateline."
"Once the airplane leaves the 12-mile limit and becomes an international airplane, I have serious concerns about the ability to keep it off the Internet," Cox said.
Board member Carol Carmody, who ran the hearing, responded to Cox, saying "I have trouble finding a way to be against more data."
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