So, 64 years ago, started a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of March 15, 1961
The story continues
The Minister for Civil Aviation, Senator Paltridge, said that he believed Australia would be the first country to require the recording of cockpit conversations and instrument readings in airliners.
Mr. Justice Spicer, the chairman of the board of inquiry which investigated last year’s Fokker Friendship disaster in Queensland, recommended the compulsory installation of flight recoders.
The equipment will be housed in in a crashproof cylinder near the rear of an aircraft to record on tape orders given by an airliner’s captain during flight.
