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Commercial passenger airline accidents may involve total destruction of the aircraft, damage to structures on the ground, and terrible loss of life. Air safety experts need to determine the cause of the accident in order to reduce the likelihood of similar accidents in the future, but when the aircraft is broken apart and burned, the cause of the accident may be a mystery. Fortunately, aviation regulatory agencies can afford to spend substantial resources to investigate the cause of accidents when they do occur, because commercial aircraft accidents are so remarkably infrequent.
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Maher, R.C. (2018). Application Example 2: Cockpit Voice Recorders. In: Principles of Forensic Audio Analysis. Modern Acoustics and Signal Processing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99453-6_10
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