A PDF let the internet hear the final words in the cockpit of a UPS plane as it crashed. The NTSB now wants it taken down

New technology allowing audio of plane crashes to be extracted from still images has prompted the National Transportation Safety Board to take a rare step of pausing the public release of nearly all ...

Crashed UPS plane's flight crew's final words extracted from a PDF and made public

Among the 2,000 pages documents released to coincide with the hearing was a PDF file that contained a spectrogram of this audio.

The NTSB tries to keep cockpit audio recordings private. AI is making that harder

The National Transportation Safety Board temporarily pulled its docket system offline after digital images were used to reconstruct cockpit voice recordings of the pilots in a recent crash.

AI is being used to resurrect the voices of dead pilots

People used AI on a spectrogram image of cockpit recordings to reconstruct them, forcing the NTSB to temporarily block access to its docket system.

NTSB halts public investigation access after AI recreates cockpit audio from fatal UPS crash

A bizarre case of 'deep fake' black box recordings.