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In the world of Air Crash Investigation, some of the most crucial pieces of evidence can be found inside an airplane’s flight recorders. Having a recording from on board an aircraft ready to be retrieved to tell the events of an illfated flight is invaluable to any investigation. They can tell some remarkable things, and sometimes investigators can get a whole lot more than they bargained for. We’ll be talking about one such case today.
When you think of the term Flight Recorder, two different objects may come to mind. There’s the Flight Data Recorder which records various parameters and technical data about a flight, and then there is the Cockpit Voice Recorder, which does exactly what it sounds like. One or more microphones positioned in the flight deck recording the conversations of the pilots.
Together these two items, though they are known colloquially as “Black Boxes” they are typically coated in bright orange. Done so to stand out amongst plane wreckage or at the bottom of the sea. As you’d expect therefore, given the sensitive nature of the voice recorder’s content, these aren’t always released to the public unlike say accident reports or photographs.
Sometimes they are for various reasons if it is in the public interest, some countries have been known to release these recording more liberally than others. In other cases the recordings themselves are withheld but they are transcribed.
Today though we are going to look into the case of Braniff International Airways Flight 352. This is a rather rare case of an air accident. Where though the disaster took place 55yearsago and for almost all of that time the cockpit voice recording was kept from the public, just two months ago at time of recording this video, it surfaced. Though the recording was withheld, I’d say having looked into it, I’d describe it more as lost.
In remarkable circumstances it was only rediscovered recently and publicly released. And there is a story there, which we’ll get to later. This is one of the oldest Cockpit Voice Recordings to ever surface from a crash. The recording sheds further light into that flight deck of 55yearsago.
What we are about to unearth and breakdown here today, are the events leading up to a fatal catastrophe that could so easily have been avoided and with the help of this recording, we’ll piece together why.

00:00 Intro
02:37 Flight Background
08:22 Weather Report
15:03 The Accident
33:39 Aftermath
38:16 What Happened to the CVR

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