WASHINGTON — What began as an inquiry into a mysterious sound in the background of an airplane cockpit voice recording escalated into an unexpected challenge for the nation's top safety investigators.

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The National Transportation Safety Board continues to investigate the UPS cargo plane crash shortly after takeoff last year in Louisville, Kentucky. During a recent hearing, the National ...

Pilots’ voices from the last seconds of a fatal cargo plane crash have been re-created by Internet sleuths using software and AI tools. The spread of reconstructed audio recordings has prompted a US ...

The FAA is developing recommendations to protect information captured by the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) of an aircraft that has been involved in an accident or reportable incident. The agency has ...

The National Transportation Safety Board temporarily pulled its docket system offline after digital images were used to reconstruct cockpit voice... The NTSB tries to keep cockpit audio recordings ...