Feds unwittingly leak pilots' pre-crash conversation

The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) inadvertently leaked a cockpit audio recording by releasing a spectrogram, which was later reconstructed into audio by the public. The NTSB acknowledged the privacy breach, citing federal laws prohibiting such releases, and temporarily removed the public docket. The incident involved the 2025 UPS cargo plane crash in Louisville, which killed 15 people.