NTSB Issues Recommendation Regarding Boeing 757 and 767 Flight Data Recording Accuracy
The National Transportation Safety Board has called for design modifications to ensure flight control position data recorded by the digital flight data recorder is accurate and unfiltered.
The National Transportation Safety Board has issued a formal recommendation directed at the Federal Aviation Administration concerning the Boeing 757 and 767 aircraft. The board urges the agency to require specific design modifications to these aircraft models. These changes are intended to ensure that flight control position data transmitted to the digital flight data recorder is accurate and is not filtered by the Engine Indication and Crew Alerting System. Additionally, the recommendation specifies that the sample rate for this data should be increased to an appropriate value to improve the quality of the recorded information.
Original regulatory source: https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/sr-details/A-94-120