UPS Flight 2976
Coverage of UPS Flight 2976 in the Nexus archive.
- 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.
- US scrambles to stop Internet users re-creating dead pilots’ voices
Internet users have used AI and image recognition software to reconstruct pilots' voices from a fatal cargo plane crash, prompting the US National Transportation Safety Board to temporarily suspend public access to its accident database. The NTSB does not officially release cockpit voice recorder audio, but investigators' publicly released sound spectrum imagery has enabled individuals to recreate approximations of these recordings from incidents including UPS flight 2976.