Plane malfunction or pilot error? An umbilical cord running to the tail of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner will shed light on the truth.
Running to the tail of Boeing's 787 Dreamliner is an umbilical cord carrying a rapid play-by-play of virtually every flight feature.
"There's absolutely no way this will be a mystery," said Peter Goelz, who led investigations as managing director of the National Transportation Safety Board, and is now a CNN aviation analyst.Regardless of what the FDR shows, the contents of the orange steel box with reflective tape typically mounted in the rear of the plane, which is meant to reduce the risk of damage in a crash, have proven pivotal in past airplane investigations.
The devices found underwater are typically transported to the lab inside water before being carefully dried, Goelz said. The Federal Aviation Administration used this data after ungrounding Boeing's 737 Max in late 2020 to track every Max flight.
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