Example: Lemmy Federated Airlines Flight 360 crashes with no survivors. Now the Lemmy Federation Air Crash Investigation Bureau finds the Flight Data Recorder and Cockpit voice recorder, and they take those boxes aboard Lemmy Investigation Bureau Airfleet Flight 180 back to the investigation headquarters for analysis. This flight also crashes with no survivors. What happens now? Will the black boxes of Flight 360 still be readable? Also, what were the odds of this scenario happening?
Sorry I couldn’t sleep and had to get this question out of my head.
Cockpit voice recorders are designed to survive catastrophic plane crashes. They are incredibly durable.
This isn’t due to airbags or crumple zones, or anything that would be used up in the first crash. If it can survive the first crash it will survive the second.