Any sentence a plane get down , theblack corner recorder , once again , becomes a mythic machine whispered about in the back alley of news programme . So Wired assembled a technical summation on the equipment .
https://gizmodo.com/black-box-case-mod-scoffs-at-server-crashes-5015772
As many of you know , the steel or titanium disgraceful box is actually painted orangish or red so it ’s light to pick out . And it ’s often actually two boxes ( and in this compositor’s case , one ’s a cylinder ) , with one “ box ” transcription voice , one “ box ” recording data .
The vocalization recorder take hold of two hours of audio feeds from pilot burner headset and in - cockpit microphones . In late years , it ’s gotten a digital upgrade that ’s less susceptible to environmental problem than magnetic tape of yore .
The Flight Data Recorder ( FDR ) record mensuration on about 88 different trajectory carrying into action issues at an interval of once every few second . When the red cent strike the devotee ( or , in some case , the planing machine ) , the FDR record measurements at a dissipated rate .
But even with as neat as the disastrous box may be from the stand of apocalyptic lastingness , it seems like a date idea in an era when realtime wireless communication is available globally . [ Wiredand Getty ]
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