NTSB pulls docket after AI recreates dead pilots' voices
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- Pilots' last moments were re-created using AI, prompting the NTSB to halt access to its civil accident database due to legal restrictions.
- The NTSB suspended online docket system access after AI-enabled audio reconstructions from crash investigations became publicly available.
- The 1990 federal law prohibits the NTSB from releasing cockpit voice recordings to protect air crew privacy.
- The suspension followed AI reconstructions of audio from the 2025 UPS flight 2976 crash in Louisville, Kentucky.
- UPS flight 2976 crashed in 2025 after takeoff, killing all three pilots and 12 on the ground, injuring 23.
- The law was enacted after airline pilots protested a TV station airing cockpit audio from a 1988 Delta crash.