Protect the Data
Dear Mr. Voss,
In your Executive’s Message (ASW, 3/11) you stated that Flight Safety Foundation issued advice to the U.S. Congress which, in your opinion, strikes the right balance between the needs of safety and justice:
We suggested that the disclosure of all safety information — including flight data, voluntary reports, data from cockpit voice recorders and flight data recorders, and so forth — should only be allowed if the prosecution can convincingly show that a fair trial cannot be achieved without it.
The Dutch Air Line Pilots Association (VNV-ALPA) is quite active within the International Federation of Air Line Pilots’ Associations and the European Cockpit Association and is a member of Flight Safety Foundation. The VNV has fiercely defended the philosophy that use of flight dat…
