Why hunt for the black box? There's a simpler fix for faster crash probes

Aircraft are equipped with sensors and recorders, which capture everything mechanical and electrical, and record cockpit conversations

In a 1968 bestseller, Airport, Arthur Hailey described operations at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport (“Lincoln International Airport” in the book) during a storm. Hailey lacked imagination, and his writing style would have turned a porn film script into a gynaecological report. But precisely due to these shortcomings, his plots adhered closely to real life. 

One of the subplots in Airport was that of a bankrupt businessman trying to pull off an insurance fraud combined with suicide and mass murder. After taking out life insurance with his wife as beneficiary, he carried a suitcase bomb onto a flight. 

This mirrored a real