Ugh, I’m glad to see ALPA is against this issue. Last thing I would want is video of my last moments on this earth, last moments that would be rather brutal, floating around someone’s office.

I would agree that in the case of the Egyptian Air or 9/11 hijackings that a video camera would have given better answers to some questions BUT are we any worse off for not having that information? I don’t think so. Actually in the case of 9/11 the recordings probably wouldn’t have survived anyway. I don’t think in the case of SwissAir 111 that video would have provided any help. It was night and the cockpit was filling with smoke. The aircraft went down because the flight crew couldn’t see, why would they think that a camera would?

With modern aircraft FDR and CVR there is very little information regarding the flight and actions of the pilots or aicraft that we don’t know about. There are 2 possibilities for a crash cause, either it was aircraft related or pilot related. If the crash investigation can’t find any fault with the aircraft from the wreckage or from the CVR/FDR than it’s falls on the flight crew. With all the accidents that there have been in aviation how many are complete mysteries to what a flight crew did or didn’t do? Is aviation safety any worse off for not having video of their actions?