Black Box
Introduction:
In the recent years many air plane disasters are reported. This is due to either technical reasons or in cases of terrorism. The Investigation Officers rely on a device known as "The Black Box". This device is used to record the end moments of the crew conversation. This helps in giving the investigation party clue's of what was the motive behind the disaster. The Black Box saves data about a little more than 30 minutes of conversation and any other audible cockpit noises. It is called the 'black box' due to the secret nature of what it contains. The information inside, especially in the cockpit voice recorder can be very personal and should not get into the wrong hands. For this reason, the information inside is encoded.
The color of the black box is Orange the reason for this color is obvious. It needs to be conspicuous so that it will be easy to find in any terrain. It has to clash with the color of the ocean, mountains, trees or deserts in order for easier location in the event of a crash. It is normal, now for black boxes to have tracing equipment in them. After any airplane accident the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) immediately begins searching for two devices. These devices are known as the airplanes "flight data recorder" (FDR) and "cockpit voice recorder" (CVR).
An Australian scientist Dr. David Warren was the man behind this invention. These devices or The Black Box as it is most commonly called is universally adopted as a tool for investigating and preventing airline disasters. He developed this device while he was investigating a series of the world's first jet-powered passenger aircraft, the Comet. He came to reason that the conversation from the crew could help give clues to what actually happened before the crash and come to a conclusion of how the crash actually happened. This came to the conclusion that a device of this sort would be needed on every flight. Sometime earlier Warren had been to an...
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