WASHINGTON, Jan 30 (Reuters) – The Federal Aviation Administration on Friday finalized a rule to require cockpit voice recorders to retain 25 hours of data for all new passenger airplanes in 2027 compared with the current two-hour loop.
The National Transportation Safety Board has been pushing for the change since 2018, and the United States is behind much of the world in the requirement for commercial planes.
The voice recorder captures transmissions and sounds in the cockpit, including the pilots’ voices and engine noises and can be crucial in understanding why airplane crashes occur. The FAA rule, which was proposed in 2023, takes effect immediately but gives some smaller aircraft one to three years to comply.Congress separately passed legislation in 2024 that will require all passenger airplanes to be retrofitted with the 25-hour recorders by 2030.
(Reporting by David Shepardson in Washington; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama )
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