Flight Data Streams and Indian Aero Dreams Podcast
Posted By Neelam Mathews March 30, 2015 Welcome to Episode 022 of the #PaxEx Podcast. Our guest for this episode is Neelam Mathews. Based in Delhi, India, Neelam has been writing about Asian aviation and beyond for over a decade. She has done long stretches of writing for Aviation Week , AIN , Jane’s Airports , and is now a contributor to RGN . The aviation industry is grappling with another tragedy, the crash of a Germanwings Airbus A320 in the French Alps. Audio from the cockpit voice recorder indicates that the captain was locked out of the cockpit, and couldn’t get back in. The French prosecutor in the case asserts that the first officer deliberately flew the A320, with 150 people on board, into the French mountainside . However, the guts of the flight data recorder have not yet been found. This crash – and the fact that sourcing information from the physical black boxes is crucial to understanding what happened in any accident –...