{"id":222815,"date":"2026-05-30T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/30\/the-ntsb-tries-to-keep-cockpit-audio-recordings-private-ai-is-making-that-harder\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T06:50:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T10:50:42","slug":"the-ntsb-tries-to-keep-cockpit-audio-recordings-private-ai-is-making-that-harder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/30\/the-ntsb-tries-to-keep-cockpit-audio-recordings-private-ai-is-making-that-harder\/","title":{"rendered":"The NTSB tries to keep cockpit audio recordings private. AI is making that harder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iowapublicradio.org\/news-from-npr\/2026-05-30\/the-ntsb-tries-to-keep-cockpit-audio-recordings-private-ai-is-making-that-harder\">The NTSB tries to keep cockpit audio recordings private. AI is making that harder<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iowapublicradio.org\/news-from-npr\/2026-05-30\/the-ntsb-tries-to-keep-cockpit-audio-recordings-private-ai-is-making-that-harder\">https:\/\/www.iowapublicradio.org\/news-from-npr\/2026-05-30\/the-ntsb-tries-to-keep-cockpit-audio-recordings-private-ai-is-making-that-harder<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-30 06:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.iowapublicradio.org\">www.iowapublicradio.org<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) experienced a challenge involving the unintended reconstruction of an audio recording from the cockpit of UPS flight 2976, which crashed in Louisville, Kentucky, in 2025, resulting in 15 fatalities.<\/li>\n<li>Recent advancements in artificial intelligence have made it possible to reconstruct audio from digital images, including spectrograms, which the NTSB inadvertently published.<\/li>\n<li>Investigator Scott Manley noticed the possibility and alerted the NTSB, sparking further efforts by individuals to reconstruct the audio from the spectrogram images.<\/li>\n<li>Some audio reconstructions were subsequently shared online, prompting the NTSB to temporarily remove public access to over thousands of investigation documents to review its protective measures.<\/li>\n<li>The NTSB has restored most public docket access, but 41 dockets remain under review to evaluate additional safeguards.<\/li>\n<li>The law that prevents the release of cockpit voice recordings (CVR) was established following the 1988 Delta Air Lines flight 1141 crash, where private, embarrassing revelations about crew conversation were inadvertently recorded.<\/li>\n<li>NTSB chair Jennifer Homendy emphasized the importance of maintaining privacy, investigation integrity, and respect for victims and their families as reasons to continue prohibiting the release of CVR audio.<\/li>\n<li>Although Manley argues that the reconstructed audio from UPS flight 2976 showed pilots handling a catastrophic engine failure calmly, the NTSB remains firm in its stance against audio release.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NTSB tries to keep cockpit audio recordings private. 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