From the September 2000 Scientific American Magazine | 0 comments
By Mark Alpert
SeptemberIn the tragic wake of an airline crash, one of the highest priorities of the accident investigators is to retrieve the aircraft's black boxes. The Federal Aviation Administration requires all large commercial aircraft to be equipped
with two such devices: the cockpit voice recorder,
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