The United Nations’ air-safety arm is pushing for video recorders to be installed in future airliner cockpits to assist investigations of serious incidents and crashes, in a move that puts safety gains above privacy drawbacks, according to agency documents and people familiar with the details. Such a step has been opposed by pilots for decades due to concerns that such filming, which could potentially capture their images during a...

Source: Wall Street Journal March 23, 2017 14:04 UTC