A while back I wrote about the spiral dive and crash of SilkAir Flight 185 in the post, What if they crashed? That particular post also has a full length documentary concerning the crash and subsequent investigation. During the investigation into this accident, investigators discovered that both the …
Continue Reading about Important new clue concerning TWA 841 CVR erasure
If there was one thing that caused the investigation of TWA 841 to go off the rails, it was the discovery that there were only nine minutes of recorded audio on the thirty minute CVR tape. This was discovered within days of the incident. A bulk erase tone was present on the remaining 21 minutes of …
Continue Reading about The story of the CVR and the man with blinders
One of the unsolved mysteries concerning TWA 841 involves the supposed erasure of the cockpit voice recorder (CVR). Early in the investigation it was discovered that all but the last nine minutes of the CVR was blank. The NTSB leaked that the CVR had been erased, and overnight the crew became the …
