NTSB again calls for cockpit video recorders

The US NTSB long-running quest to have video cameras installed in aircraft cockpits continues, with the agency again recommending that regulators require the recorders. The safety investigation agency made the recommendation in its 2021-2022 list of “most-wanted” transportation safety improvements, released on 6 April. The NTSB recommends that the FAA require new and in-service commercial jets be equipped with a “crash-protected cockpit image recording system”. US regulations require airliners have flight-data and cockpit-voice recorders, but not video- or image-capturing devices. The NTSB has for more than a decade been urging the FAA to make image recorders mandatory. “Such video would have been extremely helpful in determining flight crew actions in recent crashes in Texas, Indonesia and Ethiopia,” says the NTSB.<br/>