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Data Recorders: Consider that many general aviation aircraft now have glass cockpits with no
impact resistant data recorders. Should personal use aircraft be required to have some form of
flight data recorders?
By federal law [USG11], transport category aircraft are required to have a digital flight
recorder. Most military aircraft have flight recorders of some sort to determine much of the same
information as a civilian transport aircraft. However for the general aviation sector, it is a not
mandatory. However, there are less expensive systems, such as GoPro, Inflight Cam, and
Garmin Virb, that could be placed in the cockpit and be able to monitor communications inside
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could gather some more information of the events leading up to the accident[Cox11].
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I am neutral on the issue, but if someone lit a fire to my feet, I would decide that if would
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be a good tool to have to determine probable cause. The digital flight recorder, I’m just going to
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say GoPro as a generalized term, would be able to record much of what I stated above, and also
maybe help identify issues in either training or mechanics of the aircraft. Again, the GoPro isn’t
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Crash Lab Observations: What does CREEP stand for and did you detect any obvious signatures
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CRREP is a method of investigation that reviews the potential of post crash survivability
of the crew and passengers based on aircraft design [Woo07]. The acronym stands for container,
restraint, energy absorption, environment, and post crash factors.
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The main observations on the interior of the crash is that I found severed seat bolts as
stress caused the seats to separate from the floor. Another factors that was observed is that that
the food cart, interior speakers, and carry-on lugage was strewn about the aircraft cabin, which
would have been potential projecties within the cabin area. Addiitionally, the luggage
compartment on the right side of the plane had severed from the cabin roof, which may indicated
carry-on luggage may have been over the weight restrictions. The floor of the cabin had been
pushed up by cargo from the cargo area, which caused one of the seats to be pushed up and
forward, injuring the occupant of that seat.
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References
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Cox, B. (2011, February 22). Flight Recorder For The Little Guy. Plane & Pilot. Retrieved from
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http://www.planeandpilotmag.com/pilot-talk/x-country-log/flight-recorder-for-the-little-
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U.S. Government Publishing Office. (2011, January 1). 14 CFR 121.344 - Digital flight recorders
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for transport category airplanes. Washington, D.C. Retrieved from
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/granule/CFR-2011-title14-vol3/CFR-2011-title14-vol3-
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Wood, R. H., & Sweginnis, R. W. (2007). Aircraft accident investigation (2nd ed.). Casper, WY:
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Endeavor Books.
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Data Recorders: Consider that many general aviation aircraft now have glass cockpits with no

flight data recorders?

more information to develop a sound hypothesis to the cause of the crash.

revealing issues with survivability?

restraint, energy absorption, environment, and post crash factors.

forward, injuring the occupant of that seat.

for transport category airplanes. Washington, D.C. Retrieved from

Food cart as a potential projectile

Remains from the injury of the row 3 occupant

Projectiles in the passenger area

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