New EU Black Box Rules Seek to Prevent Future Missing Airliners
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The time it will take to implement this is a stark reminder of how slowly the aviation industry moves.
Black boxes on airliners will be easier to find as a result of new European Union rules to help future accident investigators after the mysterious disappearance last year of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.
The underwater locator beacon in an aircraft’s black box, also known as the flight data and cockpit voice recorder, will have to operate for 90 days instead of 30 days as of mid-2018 under the new EU regulations. In addition, airlines will have to track their aircraft over oceans as of end-2018 -- a response to the vanishing in March 2014 of the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777.
The disappearance of that plane on its way from K
