{"id":221681,"date":"2026-05-22T19:39:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T19:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/us-scrambles-to-stop-internet-users-re-creating-dead-pilots-voices\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T19:39:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T19:39:04","slug":"us-scrambles-to-stop-internet-users-re-creating-dead-pilots-voices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/us-scrambles-to-stop-internet-users-re-creating-dead-pilots-voices\/","title":{"rendered":"US scrambles to stop Internet users re-creating dead pilots\u2019 voices"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Pilots\u2019 voices from the last seconds of a fatal cargo plane crash have been re-created by Internet sleuths using software and AI tools. The spread of reconstructed audio recordings has prompted a US government agency to suspend all public access to its database of civil transportation accidents\u2014because federal law prohibits investigators from publicly releasing audio from cockpit voice recorders.<\/p>\n<p>The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) usually shares factual reports and evidence gathered from investigations of aircraft crashes and other civil transportation incidents. But on May 21, the NTSB <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NTSB_Newsroom\/status\/2057538746795663536\">announced<\/a> that the <a href=\"https:\/\/data.ntsb.gov\/Docket\/Forms\/searchdocket\">online docket system<\/a> containing such information was \u201ctemporarily unavailable\u201d as it reviewed the publicly available materials that had enabled people to re-create cockpit audio recordings from aircraft disasters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u200b\u200bThe NTSB is aware that advances in image recognition and computational methods have enabled individuals to reconstruct approximations of cockpit voice recorder audio from sound spectrum imagery released as part of NTSB investigations, including the ongoing investigation of the crash last year of UPS flight 2976 in Louisville, Kentucky,\u201d according to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ntsb.gov\/pages\/dockets-unavailable.aspx\">NTSB statement<\/a>. \u201cThe NTSB does not release cockpit audio recordings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/ai\/2026\/05\/ai-users-re-create-dead-pilots-voices-from-crash-investigation-docs\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/ai\/2026\/05\/ai-users-re-create-dead-pilots-voices-from-crash-investigation-docs\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pilots\u2019 voices from the last seconds of a fatal cargo plane crash have been re-created by Internet sleuths using software and AI tools. The spread of reconstructed audio recordings has prompted a US government agency to suspend all public access to its database of civil transportation accidents\u2014because federal law prohibits investigators from publicly releasing audio from cockpit voice recorders. 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