Brainy box
even with the help of a flight data recorder (fdr), commonly known as a black box, it might be difficult to find out why an aircraft crashed. As the existing fdrs do not register all the information that investigators might need, the us federal aviation administration is now considering whether airlines should be forced to install a new generation of fdrs.The refit could cost us operators up to $1.6 billion, some observers say.
But Marcello Napolitano, an associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at West Virginia University in Morgantown, us, may have found an alternative. He has devised a