Time to reassess black box technology?

Oliver McGee, former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Transportation for Technology Policy in the Clinton Administration , has made the very sensible suggestion that perhaps it is time for black box recorders to be moved to the cloud at the very least for “essential limited flight recorder data for long flights over areas like the Indian Ocean, or other remote areas across large land masses like across the Brazilian Amazon” – he commented to ConsumerAffairs. This makes a lot of sense in the wake of the Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 incident and indeed the idea was also raised following the