Black box recording capacity needs to be revised

KUALA LUMPUR: The global aviation industry may need to revise the recording capacity of an aircraft black box or flight data recorder following the Malaysia Airlines MH370 incident, says IATA senior vice-president for safety and flight operations Kevin Hiatt.

At present, the black box only records two hours of data before it overwrites the original data. That means only the last two hours of aircraft cockpit conversations will be on record if the black box is found after a crash.