New Black Boxes Will Be Easier to Track in Plane Crashes at Sea<br />" Mr. Sumwalt said. that When you put all of this together — the human, the machine, the environment, including the things the aircraft<br />manufacturers are doing — those things combine to make our aviation system much more safe than it was a few decades ago,<br />Airbus said that triggered either<br />Aircraft will carry both a fixed and deployable version, each storing 25 hours of cockpit<br />voice — up from about two hours now — and data on thousands of flight parameters.<br />Blake said that The first alert will go off within three seconds after the beacon is deployed,<br />Archival pages from The New York Times can attest that not so long ago, pilots were more likely to misjudge terrain<br />and crash into mountains, or even to crash into other planes in midair.