List of unrecovered and unusable flight recorders

|British Overseas Airways Corporation

|Lake Michigan, off Chicago, Illinois, United States

|Accident

|FDR was fragmented by the impact; parts of the outer cover were found but the foil tape containing the data was not.{{Cite web|url=http://libraryonline.erau.edu/online-full-text/ntsb/aircraft-accident-reports/AAR67-AA.pdf|title=NTSB Aircraft Accident Report, United Airlines N7036U in Lake Michigan}}

1966-03-05

|911

|Boeing 707-400

|Mount Fuji, Japan

|Accident

|The FDR was destroyed by post-crash fire; the airplane was not required to carry a CVR.

1966-04-22

|280/D

|American Flyers Airline

|Lockheed L-188 Electra

|Ardmore Municipal Airport, Oklahoma, United States

|Accident

|The FDR had suffered a mechanical failure unrelated to the accident and may not have been properly checked by the flight engineer before the flight; it had produced no recording for the flight.[https://www.baaa-acro.com/sites/default/files/2018-03/N183H.pdf ICAO Circular 96-AN/79] The airplane did not have a CVR (and was not required to have one).{{cite web |date=28 March 1967 |title=Aircraft Accident Report, American Flyers Airline Corporation L-188C, N183H, Near Ardmore Municipal Airport, Ardmore, Oklahoma, April 22, 1966 |url=https://reports.aviation-safety.net/1966/19660422-0_L188_N183H.pdf |access-date=4 February 2020 |publisher=Civil Aeronautics Board}}{{dead link |date=January 2025}}

1966-08-06

|250

|Braniff International Airways

|BAC 1-11-203AE

|Richardson County, Nebraska, United States

|Accident

|The FDR was destroyed in the crash.{{cite news |date=8 August 1966 |title=Crash probe: Recorder is 'useless' |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=M49aAAAAIBAJ&sjid=-EkDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4436%2C1392423 |work=Deseret News |location=(Salt Lake City, Utah) |page=1A |agency=UPI}}

1966-10-01

|956

|West Coast Airlines

|Douglas DC-9-14

|Near Wemme, Oregon, United States

|Accident

|The CVR was destroyed by post-crash fire.

1966-11-15

|708

|Pan American World Airways

|Near Dallgow in former East Germany

|Probable accident (disputed)

|The plane crashed in East German territory during the Cold War; only half of the wreckage was relinquished by the Soviets. The fate of the CVR and FDR are unknown.

1969-09-21

|801

|Mexicana de Aviación

|Pan American World Airways

|Near Mexico City International Airport in Mexico City, Mexico

|Accident

|The plane crashed on the final approach; the FDR yielded no data as it was improperly installed by technicians two days prior. The CVR was removed by the same technicians two days prior to the crash and was never replaced.{{cite web |title=Accident description |url=https://aviation-safety.net/asndb/331369 |publisher=Aviation Safety Network |access-date=15 May 2024}}

1970-02-05

|603

|Dominicana de Aviación

|Douglas DC-9-32

|Caribbean Sea, near Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

|Accident

|Neither flight recorder was ever found.{{Cite web|title=Crash of a Douglas DC-9-32 off Santo Domingo: 102 killed|url=https://baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-douglas-dc-9-32-santo-domingo-102-killed|access-date=2021-06-11|website=baaa-acro.com|publisher=Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Archives}}

1970-05-02

|980

|ALM Antillean Airlines

|Douglas DC-9-33CF

|Caribbean Sea

|Accident

|Resting at a water depth of {{convert|5000|ft|m|abbr=on}}; neither recorder was found.{{Cite web|url=http://www.airdisaster.com/reports/ntsb/AAR71-08.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140322212243/http://www.airdisaster.com/reports/ntsb/AAR71-08.pdf|title=NTSB Aircraft Accident Report, Aircraft Accident Report: Overseas National Airways, Inc. Douglas DC-9 N935F, Operating as Antillaanse Luchtvaart Flight 980, Near St. Croix, Virgin Islands, 2 May 1970|url-status=usurped|archive-date=22 March 2014}}

1971-06-06

|706

|Hughes Airwest

|Douglas DC-9-31

|San Gabriel Mountains near Los Angeles, California, United States

|Accident

|The CVR was destroyed by post-crash fire.

1971-07-30

|845

|Boeing 747-100

|San Francisco International Airport, California, United States

|Accident

|The CVR recording was overwritten by other recordings.{{cite web |date=1972-05-24 |title=Aircraft Accident Report - Pan American World Airways, Inc., Boeing 747, N747PA, Flight 845, San Francisco, California, July 30, 1971 |url=https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/AAR7217.pdf |accessdate=2016-06-12 |publisher=National Transportation Safety Board |id=NTSB-AAR-72-17}} - [https://libraryonline.erau.edu/online-full-text/ntsb/aircraft-accident-reports/AAR72-17.pdf Copy at] Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University.

1972-06-29

|290

|North Central Airlines

|Convair CV-580

|Lake Winnebago, near Appleton, Wisconsin, United States

|Accident

|One of two aircraft involved in the 1972 Lake Winnebago mid-air collision. An estimated 50% to 60% of the wreckage was recovered from the shallow, muddy water. The FDR was found in good condition, but no CVR was found.

1972-12-08

|553

|United Airlines

|Pan American World Airways

|Near Midway International Airport, Illinois, United States

|Accident

|The FDR was inoperative due to the mechanical malfunction of an internal gear wheel that occurred 14 minutes before the accident.{{cite web |date=29 August 1973 |title=Aircraft Accident Report, United Airlines Inc., Boeing 737, N9031U Chicago-Midway Airport, Chicago, Illinois, December 8, 1972 |url=http://libraryonline.erau.edu/online-full-text/ntsb/aircraft-accident-reports/AAR73-16.pdf |access-date=18 August 2011 |publisher=National Transportation Safety Board |id=NTSB-AAR-73-16}} The CVR recorded a cockpit discussion of the FDR fault, which may have been a distraction for the crew.

1973-07-22

|816

|Boeing 707-320B

|Pacific Ocean, off Papeete, Tahiti

|Accident

|Resting at a water depth of {{convert|700|m|ft|abbr=on}}; neither recorder was found.{{ASN accident|id=19730722-0}}

1973-08-28

|742

|Trans World Airlines

|Boeing 707-320B

|Pacific Ocean near Los Angeles, United States

|Accident

|CVR overwritten by other recordings.{{cite web |last= |first= |date=10 July 1974 |title=Trans World Airlines Flight 742, N8075T, Boeing 707-331B, Los Angeles, California, August 28, 1973 |url=https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/AAR7408.pdf |access-date=13 January 2021 |website= |publisher=National Transportation Safety Board |id=NTSB/AAR-74/08}} - [https://libraryonline.erau.edu/online-full-text/ntsb/aircraft-accident-reports/AAR74-08.pdf Copy] at the Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University

1974-01-26

|301

|Turkish Airlines

|Fokker F28-1000 Fellowship

|Izmir Cumaovası Airport, Cumaovası, İzmir, Turkey

|Accident

|The CVR was defective and did not record any data from the accident flight.{{Cite news |date=29 January 1974 |title=Van Uçağının Ses Kayıt Kutusu Arızalı Olduğu İçin Dinlenemedi |trans-title=Van Plane's Voice Recording Box Could Not Be Heard Because It Was Faulty |work=Cumhuriyet |pages=1 |language=turkish}}

1974-09-08

|841

|Trans World Airlines

|Boeing 707-320B

|Ionian Sea, near Greece

|Bomb

|Resting at a water depth of {{convert|3164|m|ft|abbr=on}}. By the time the main wreckage was located, conclusive evidence of a bomb explosion had been found, and it was decided that whatever additional information the recorders held would not justify the cost and difficulty of recovering them. Neither of the recorders were ever found.

1974-12-04

|138

|Martinair

|Douglas DC-8

|Maskeliya, Sri Lanka

|Accident

|FDR completely disintegrated by impact. Small fragments of the foil tape from the unit were recovered from the crash site, but all of the fragments were from the supply spool of the recorder, and thus did not contain any flight data. The aircraft did not carry a CVR.

1975-09-30

|240

|Malév

|Tupolev Tu-154

|near the Lebanese shoreline

|Unknown

|Resting at a water depth between {{convert|600|and|1000|m|ft|abbr=on}}; neither recorder was found.{{Cite web|url=http://www.airliners.net/aviation-articles/read.main?id=55|title=The Lost Flight – Malév 240 | Airliners.net}}

1975-11-12

|032

|Overseas National Airways

|McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30CF

|John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York City, United States

|Accident

|The CVR was destroyed by post-crash fire.

1976-04-05

|60

|Alaska Airlines

|McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10

|Ketchikan International Airport, Ketchikan, Alaska, United States

|Accident

|The CVR was destroyed by post-crash fire.{{cite web |date=22 December 1976 |title=Aircraft Accident Report, Alaska Airlines, Inc., Booing 727-81, N124AS, Ketchikan International Airport, Ketchikan, Alaska, April 5, 1976 |url=https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/AAR7620.pdf |access-date=4 December 2022 |publisher=National Transportation Safety Board |id=NTSB/AAR-76-20}} - [https://libraryonline.erau.edu/online-full-text/ntsb/aircraft-accident-reports/AAR76-20.pdf Copy at] Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

1976-08-15

|232

|SAETA

|Vickers Viscount 785D

|Chimborazo volcano, Ecuador

|Accident

|Speculation surrounding the existence of both the FDR and the CVR followed the discovery of the plane's remains in 2002, after being lost for 26 years. Civil aviation authorities claimed it didn't carry any device, but a former SAETA pilot claimed that the Viscount had carried at least an FDR. A former SAETA executive also claimed that the plane was acquired with both devices. In the end, due to the crash site's high altitude, harsh weather, and inaccessible and remote location, it was declared a holy field (de facto and de jure graveyard) and no investigation was made into the causes of the crash.{{cite web | url=https://www.eluniverso.com/2003/02/22/0001/12/55C79041D544420DBF2009D69EAED0A6.html/ | title=Polémica por caja negra | trans-title=Controversy over black box | newspaper=El Universo | date=22 February 2003 | language=es}}

1976-10-13

|N730JP

|Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano

|Boeing 707-130F

|El Trompillo Airport, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia

|Accident

|Both recorders were inoperative at the time of the accident; The tape medium in the FDR had run out and was found wrapped around the receiving reel, The CVR's cockpit area microphone was inoperative and did not record any useful information as a result.{{Cite web |last=Ranter |first=Harro |title=ASN Aircraft accident Boeing 707-131F N730JP Santa Cruz-El Trompillo Airport (SRZ) |url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19761013-0 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050415155829/http://aviation-safety.net:80/database/record.php?id=19761013-0 |archive-date=15 April 2005 |access-date=2021-12-26 |website=Aviation Safety Network |publisher=Flight Safety Foundation}}

1977-09-02

|3751

|Transmeridian Air Cargo

|Canadair CL-44

|2.5 Nautical Miles east of Waglan Island

|Accident

|Recovery was hampered by bad weather and poor visibility. Undersea cables in the area precluded the use of dredging equipment, making salvage operations very difficult. Only 25% of the wreckage was recovered after an extensive effort; the CVR and FDR were not found.

1977-12-18

|730

|SA de Transport Aérien

|Sud Aviation Caravelle

|4 kilometers southeast of Funchal Airport, Portugal

|Accident

|Aircraft was located but largely not recovered from the sea, it was not stated in the accident report which types of flight recorders were carried, only that none were recovered.{{Cite web|last=Direcçao-Geral da Aeronautica Civil|date=1974|title=SATA - S.A. DE TRANSPORT AERIEN SE210R SUPER CARAVELLE HB-ICK|url=https://reports.aviation-safety.net/1977/19771218-1_S210_HB-ICK.pdf}}

1977-12-18

|2860

|United Airlines

|Douglas DC-8F-54

|Near Kaysville, Utah, United States

|Accident

|The CVR had been inoperative for several days for reasons unrelated to the accident, and the preflight testing procedure failed to detect the malfunction.{{cite web|date=27 July 1978|title=Aircraft Accident Report United Airlines, Inc., Douglas DC-8-54, N8047U, near Kaysville, Utah, December 18, 1977.|url=https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/AAR7808.pdf|access-date=4 April 2010|publisher=National Transportation Safety Board|id=NTSB-AAR-78-8}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.ntsb.gov/safety/safety-recs/recletters/A78_21_22.pdf|title=Safety recommendations A-78-21 and A-78-22|date=13 April 1978|publisher=National Transportation Safety Board|access-date=5 April 2010}} – [https://libraryonline.erau.edu:443/online-full-text/ntsb/aircraft-accident-reports/AAR78-08.pdf Copy at] Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

1978-03-01

|603

|Continental Airlines

|McDonnell Douglas DC-10

|Los Angeles International Airport, California, United States

|Accident

|The CVR was inoperative due to having a broken tape. The flight captain discovered the malfunction during a preflight check and requested a repair, but no repair was performed and the captain did not recheck it. The problem was not recorded in the aircraft logbook.{{cite web|date=25 January 1979|title=Aircraft Accident Report, Continental Air Lines, Inc., McDonnell-Douglas DC-10-10, N68045, Los Angeles, California, March 1, 1978|url=https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/AAR7901.pdf|publisher=National Transportation Safety Board|id=NTSB/AAR-79/01|accessdate=22 December 2017}}

1979-01-30

|967

|Varig

|Boeing 707-323C

|Pacific Ocean, around 200 kilometers East Northeast of Tokyo, Japan

|Unknown

|The aircraft debris was never located and thus, neither the CVR and FDR was found and the cause of the crash was never determined.{{cite web |date=1979-01-30 |title=Varig accident description |url=http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19790130-0 |access-date=2009-10-20 |website=Aviation Safety Network |publisher=Flight Safety Foundation}}

1979-05-25

|191

|American Airlines

|Des Plaines, Illinois, United States

|Accident

|The separation of the left engine caused the cockpit voice recorder to cut off and lose power one second later, causing the last 31 seconds of the crash to not be recorded.{{cite report |url=https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/AAR7917.pdf |title=Aircraft Accident Report: American Airlines, Inc. DC-10-10, N110AA, Chicago O'Hare International Airport, Chicago, Illinois, May 25, 1979 |date=21 December 1979 |publisher=National Transportation Safety Board |id=NTSB-AAR-79-17 |access-date=6 September 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190422022517/https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/AAR7917.pdf |archive-date=22 April 2019 |url-status=live}}

1980-03-14

|007

|LOT Polish Airlines

|Ilyushin Il-62

|Warsaw, Polish People's Republic

|Accident

|Both flight recorders were found, however, both devices stopped recording when their power connections were severed by flying debris or fire 26 seconds before the crash.

1980-08-19

|163

|Saudia

|Lockheed L-1011 Tristar

|Riyadh International Airport

|Accident

|The CVR stopped recording before the emergency landing due to fire damage.

1980-12-23

|162

|Saudia

|Lockheed L-1011 Tristar

|Over the Gulf of Bahrain

|Accident

|The CVR was overwritten and only contained conversations after the emergency landing. The FDR malfunctioned and recorded erroneous data.{{clarify |date=January 2025 |reason=What sort of malfunction?}}

1981-05-07

|901

|Austral Líneas Aéreas

|BAC One-Eleven

|Río de la Plata, near Buenos Aires, Argentina

|Accident

|Neither flight recorder was ever found.{{Cite web|url=http://prevacc.org/informes/19810507.pdf|title=Informe Final: Investigacion de Accidentes de Aviación|last=JIACC|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180921110846/http://prevacc.org/informes/19810507.pdf|archive-date=21 September 2018|url-status=dead}}

1981-05-24

|HC-BHG/FAE-723

|Ecuadorian Air Force flight, on behalf of the Ecuadorian Government

|Beechcraft Super King Air

|Huairapungo Hill, Loja Province, Ecuador

|Accident (disputed)

|The existence and possible whereabouts of the CVR and/or FDR have been disputed. High-ranking Air Force officers stated to a 1992 inquiry by the Congress of Ecuador that the black box equipment wasn't acquired with the plane because it was considered optional. The acquisition records also did not show that either device was acquired, and Beechcraft said it had no record of selling or providing either device. The head of the 1992 parliamentary inquiry criticized the Ecuadorian armed forces for cordoning off the area and removing debris without any judicial process or security protocols, and no CVR or FDR were revealed to have been found.{{cite web|title=Víctor Granda en muerte de Jaime Roldós: A lo mejor sí existió caja negra, sospechas falta de rúbrica de dos páginas del contrato del avión presidencial (Audio)|url=http://www.ecuadorinmediato.com/index.php?module=Noticias&func=news_user_view&id=2818781889|language=es|website=www.ecuadorinmediato.com|date=25 May 2015|access-date=23 February 2019|archive-date=24 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190224062313/http://www.ecuadorinmediato.com/index.php?module=Noticias&func=news_user_view&id=2818781889|url-status=dead}}

1983-01-11

|2885

|United Airlines

|Douglas DC-8F-54

|Detroit Metropolitan Airport, Romulus, Michigan, United States

|Accident

|The FDR malfunctioned shortly after it was turned on, and resumed normal operation only about 15 seconds before the accident.{{cite web |date=31 October 1983 |title=United Airlines Flight 2885, N8053U, McDonnell Douglas DC-8-54F, Detroit, Michigan, January 11, 1983 |url=https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/AAR8307.pdf |access-date=8 February 2015 |page=8 |publisher=National Transportation Safety Board |id=NTSB/AAR-83/07}}

1982-09-13

|995

|Spantax

|McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30CF

|Málaga Airport, Málaga, Spain

|Accident

|The CVR was destroyed by post-crash fire.

1983-12-23

|084

|Korean Air

|McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30CF

|Anchorage International Airport, Anchorage, Alaska

|Accident

|The FDR was inoperative at the time of the accident, the CVR was not recovered.{{cite web |date=9 August 1984 |title=Korean Air Lines McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30, HL7339, SouthCentral Air Piper PA-31-350, N35206, Anchorage, Alaska, December 23, 1983 |url=https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/AAR8410.pdf |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20210825194138/https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/AAR8410.pdf |archivedate=25 August 2021 |accessdate=29 August 2021 |publisher=National Transportation Safety Board}}{{Reference page|page=11}}

1985-01-01

|980

|Eastern Air Lines

|Boeing 727-225

|{{convert|25|nmi|km|abbr=on}} from La Paz at the {{convert|19600|ft

1|abbr=on}} level of Andean peak Mt. Illimani.

|Accident

|Due to the extremely high altitude and inaccessibility of the accident location, the FDR and CVR could not be recovered.[http://rgl.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_Guidance_Library/rgTSO.nsf/0/cc60d6b4c807869586256dc700717e5f/$FILE/totalrpt.doc Investigation of Controlled Flight into Terrain. Descriptions of Flight Paths for Selected Controlled Flight into Terrain (CFIT) Aircraft Accidents, 1985–1997.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161228075456/http://rgl.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_Guidance_Library/rgTSO.nsf/0/cc60d6b4c807869586256dc700717e5f/$FILE/totalrpt.doc |date=28 December 2016 }} by Robert O. Phillips. Federal Aviation Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation, Project Memorandum

DOT-TSC-FA9D1-99-01, March 1999. A team of three mountain climbers attempted to find the recorders in 2016, recovering part of the recorder mounting rack and a magnetic tape which they believed may have come from the CVR.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/06/05/two-massachusetts-men-say-they-have-found-long-lost-black-boxes-bolivia/KEDOi2YEOnsMSYfTK7alGO/story.html|title=Two Massachusetts men claim they have found long-lost 'black boxes' in Bolivia |publisher= The Boston Globe|website=BostonGlobe.com|access-date=2016-06-06}} The NTSB determined that the tape was not from a flight recorder.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ntsb.gov/news/press-releases/Pages/PR20170207.aspx|title=NTSB Press Release}}

1985-01-21

|203

|Galaxy Airlines

|Lockheed L-188 Electra

|Near Cannon International Airport, Reno, Nevada, United States

|Accident

|The recording tape of the FDR had run out and was found on the receiving spool sealed with a piece of transparent tape; the aircraft had been operated improperly for 117 hours after the tape had run out.{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=4 February 1986 |title=Aircraft Accident Report, Galaxy Airlines Inc., Lockheed Electra-L-1 88C, N5532, Reno, Nevada, January 21, 1985 |url=http://libraryonline.erau.edu/online-full-text/ntsb/aircraft-accident-reports/AAR86-01.pdf |access-date=23 October 2006 |website= |publisher=National Transportation Safety Board |page=13 |via=Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University |id=NTSB/AAR-86/01}}

1985-02-19

|006

|China Airlines

|Boeing 747SP-09

|Pacific Ocean, near San Francisco, California, United States

|Accident

|The CVR was overwritten due to the aircraft being repaired and returned to service.{{Cite web |date=29 March 1986 |title=Aircraft accident report : China Airlines Boeing 747-SP, N4522V, 300 nautical miles northwest of San Francisco, California, February 19, 1985 |url=https://ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/AAR8603.pdf |access-date=2019-04-30 |publisher=National Transportation Safety Board |id=NTSB/AAR-86/03}}

1985-07-10

|5143

|Aeroflot

|Tupolev Tu-154B-2

|Uchkuduk, Uzbekistan (formerly Uzbek SSR)

|Accident

|The CVR was completely destroyed by impact, explosion, and a post-crash fire.

1985-12-12

|1285R

|Arrow Air

|Douglas DC-8-63CF

|Gander International Airport, Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

|Accident

|The CVR was unusable as its cockpit area microphone was inoperative at the time of the accident and did not record any information.{{cite web |date=14 November 1988 |title=Aviation Occurrence Report, Arrow Air Inc. Douglas DC-8-63 N950JW, Gander International Airport, Newfoundland, 12 December 1985 |url=http://flightopsresearch.org/data/files/arrow1285.pdf |access-date=11 September 2017 |publisher=Canadian Aviation Safety Board}}

1987-05-09

|5055

|LOT Polish Airlines

|Ilyushin Il-62

|Warsaw, Polish People's Republic

|Accident

|Both flight recorders stopped recording, likely due to fire affecting their supply of electrical power, two minutes and 33 seconds before impact.

1987-11-28

|295

|South African Airways

|Boeing 747-200M

|Indian Ocean, near Mauritius

|In-flight fire

|The CVR was located at a depth of {{convert|4900|m|ft|abbr=on}}, but the quality of the audio was very poor and only the last 30 minutes were recorded. The tape stopped shortly after the emergency began due to the fire burning the wires to the CVR. FDR not found.

1987-11-29

|858

|Korean Air

|Boeing 707-320C

|Andaman Sea

|Bomb

|Neither flight recorder was ever found.{{cite news| url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-04-13-mn-1259-story.html | work=Los Angeles Times | date=13 April 1990 | title=Seoul Pardons North Korean in Bombing of Airliner Killing 115}}

1988-07-03

|655

|Iran Air

|Airbus A300

|Persian Gulf

|Shootdown

|Neither flight recorder was ever found.{{cite news| url=http://www.iranchamber.com/history/articles/shootingdown_iranair_flight655.php | work=Iran Chamber Society | date=2004 | title=Shooting Down Iran Air Flight 655}}

1989-03-10

|1363

|Air Ontario

|Fokker F28-1000

|Dryden Regional Airport, Dryden, Ontario, Canada

|Accident

|Both recorders were destroyed by post-crash fire.

1989-09-08

|394

|Partnair

|Convair CV-580

|Sea, near Copenhagen, Denmark

|Accident

|Both recorders were found but the CVR had stopped working just before takeoff due to a faulty modification of its power connection. The FDR was an antiquated model and had not been operating properly over a period of several years and especially in recent months, partly related to vibrations resulting from the use of counterfeit bolts, and it yielded distorted and incomplete data.

1990-01-25

|052

|Avianca

|Boeing 707

|Cove Neck, New York, United States

|Accident

|The FDR was inoperative at the time of the accident as the foil recording medium used had run out and been taped in place at some time before the flight. CVR useable{{cite book |url=https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/AAR9104.pdf |title=Aircraft Accident Report, Avianca, The Airline of Columbia, Boeing 707-321B, HK 2016, Fuel Exhaustion, Cove Neck, New York, January 25, 1990 |date=30 April 1991 |publisher=National Transportation Safety Board |id=NTSB/AAR-91/04 |access-date=15 January 2016}}

1990-09-11

|OB-1303

|Faucett Perú

|Boeing 727-200

|Atlantic Ocean, 350 miles southeast of Cape Race, Newfoundland, Canada

|Accident

|The plane and all sixteen aboard missing, along with the CVR and FDR. The aircraft was being returned to Peru after lease to Air Malta. The crew reported a low fuel notice and that they were preparing to ditch.{{ASN accident|title= OB-1303|id= 19900911-0|accessdate= 27 January 2016}}

1991-05-26

|004

|Lauda Air

|Boeing 767-300ER

|Phu Toei National Park, Suphan Buri Province, Thailand

|Accident

|The FDR was destroyed by post-crash fire.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Lauda Air B767 Accident Report|url=https://rvs-bi.de/publications/Incidents/DOCS/ComAndRep/LaudaAir/LaudaRPT.html|access-date=2021-01-18|website=rvs-bi.de}}

1991-07-11

|2120

|Nigeria Airways (operated by Nationair Canada)

|Douglas DC-8-61

|1.6km (1mi) from King Abdulaziz International Airport, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

|In-flight fire

|CVR ceased operating as part of the cascading failure caused by the extreme fire.{{Cite web|url=https://flightsafety.org/ap/ap_sep93.pdf |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180712130132/https://flightsafety.org/ap/ap_sep93.pdf |archivedate=2018-07-12 |url-status=live |title=Tire Failure on Takeoff Sets Stage for Fatal Inflight Fire and Crash |publisher=Flight Safety Foundation}}

1992-01-03

|4821

|CommuteAir

|Beechcraft 1900

|Gabriels, New York, United States

|Accident

|The CVR was destroyed by post-crash fire; the aircraft did not carry an FDR.{{cite web |date=28 March 1994 |title=In reply refer to: A-94-74 through -76 |url=https://www.ntsb.gov/safety/safety-recs/recletters/A94_74_76.pdf |access-date=23 April 2010 |publisher=National Transportation Safety Board}}

1992-01-20

|148

|Air Inter

|Airbus A320-100

|Mont Sainte-Odile

|Accident

|The FDR was destroyed by post-crash fire.{{cite web |title=Rapport de la commission d'enquête sur l'accident survenu le 20 janvier 1992 près du Mont Sainte-Odile (Bas Rhin) à l'Airbus A 320 immatriculé F-GGED exploité par la compagnie Air Inter |trans-title=Report of the commission of inquiry into the accident on 20 January 1992 near Mont Sainte-Odile (Bas Rhin) to the Airbus A 320 registered F-GGED operated by Air Inter |url=http://www.bea.aero/docspa/1992/f-ed920120/htm/f-ed920120.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120613020220/http://www.bea.aero/docspa/1992/f-ed920120/htm/f-ed920120.html |archive-date=13 June 2012 |access-date=14 April 2010 |publisher=Bureau of Enquiry and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety |language=fr}}

1992-06-06

|201

|Copa Airlines

|Boeing 737-200 Advanced

|Darien Gap, near Tucuti, Panama

|Accident

|Both recorders were found, but the CVR tape was broken in several pieces, and the recording recovered from it was from a different flight.

1992-09-10

|015

|Expreso Aéreo

|Fokker F27-500

|Bellavista airstrip, San Martín Region, Peru

|Accident

|The CVR's magnetic tape was found to have been burned by the post-crash fire. The FDR was found not to be working properly at the time of the crash, as the tape was not connected.{{cite web | url=https://cdn.www.gob.pe/uploads/document/file/438890/Informe_Final__OB1443_-_10SEP92_.pdf?v=1576002839 | publisher=Ministry of Transport and Communications | title=Investigation Report (1992) | page=14 | language=es}}

1992-09-28

|268

|Pakistan International Airlines

|Airbus A300B4-203

|Kathmandu, Nepal

|Accident

|Both recorders were found, but no conversation could be heard on the CVR, rendering it unusable.{{cite book |last=Gero |first=David |url=https://archive.org/details/aviationdisaster0000gero/page/232 |title=Aviation Disasters: The World's Major Civil Airliner Crashes since 1950 |publisher=Patrick Stephens (Haynes) |year=2000 |isbn=9781852606022 |edition=3rd |location=Sparkford, nr. Yeovil, Somerset |page=[https://archive.org/details/aviationdisaster0000gero/page/232 232]}}{{clarify |date=January 2025 |reason=Why was no conversation recorded? Is any information available about a microphone or wiring problem?}}

1992-10-04

|1862

|El Al

|Boeing 747-200F

|Groeneveen and Klein-Kruitberg flats in the Bijlmermeer, Amsterdam Zuidoost

|Accident

|The FDR was found but was severely damaged, with the tape broken in four pieces; the CVR was not found.Bijlmerramp

1992-11-24

|3493

|China Southern Airlines

|Boeing 737-300

|12.5 miles south of Guilin Airport, China

|Accident

|The FDR was found but was severely damaged, with the tape being exposed to the post-crash fire; the CVR was not found.{{Cite web|url=http://www.ceaa.org.cn/anquan/yunshuhangkonganquan/2012/1005/1249.html|title=1992年南方航空公司B737"11·24"桂林空难事故 - CEAA-中国实验类飞行器|date=2014-05-19|language=zh|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140519093516/http://www.ceaa.org.cn/anquan/yunshuhangkonganquan/2012/1005/1249.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2014-05-19|access-date=2018-10-02}}

1992-12-07

|012

|China Airlines

|20 miles east of Japan

|Incident

|The CVR was overwritten by other recordings.{{Cite web |date=1994-02-15 |title=In-flight turbulence encounter and loss of portions of the elevators, China Airlines Flight CI-012, McDonnell Douglas MD-11-P, Taiwan registration B-150, About 20 miles east of Japan, December 7, 1992 |url=https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/AAR9402.pdf |access-date=2023-01-05 |publisher=National Transportation Safety Board |id=NTSB/AAR-94/02}}

1993-04-06

|583

|China Eastern Airlines

|Near the Aleutian Islands, United States

|Accident

|The CVR, which used a continuous tape loop recording system, had a failure of its erasing function; it failed to erase previous recordings before recording new ones and instead superimposed new recordings along with the prior ones to produce a scrambled and degraded result, yielding no usable record. The nature of the failure was such that the maintenance personnel and flight crews could not detect that there was a problem by following ordinary procedures.{{Cite report |url=https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/AAR9307.pdf |title=Aircraft Accident Report - Inadvertent in-flight slat deployment, China Eastern Airlines flight 583, McDonnell Douglas MD-11, B-2171, 950 nautical miles south of Sheyma, Alaska, April 6, 1993 |date=27 October 1993 |publisher=National Transportation Safety Board |id=NTSB/AAR-93/07 |access-date=22 September 2021}} – [https://libraryonline.erau.edu/online-full-text/ntsb/aircraft-accident-reports/AAR93-07.pdf Copy at] Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University.

1994-04-06

|9XR-NN

|Rwanda Government

|Dassault Falcon 50

|1 Nautical Mile East of Kigali Airport, Kigali, Rwanda

|Shootdown

|The whereabouts and even the existence of the CVR and/or FDR have been disputed. Multiple independent investigations were unable to determine the location of any flight recorders the aircraft may have carried. A proper examination of the crash site was not conducted until 15 years after the shootdown, by which time a majority of the wreckage had been displaced or scavenged.{{Cite web|url=https://www.scribd.com/document/24984758/Investigation-into-the-Crash-of-Dassault-Falcon-50-Registration-Number-9XR-NN-on-6-April-1994-Carrying-Former-President-Juvenal-Habyarimana|title=Investigation into the Crash of Dassault Falcon 50 Registration Number 9XR-NN on 6 April 1994 Carrying Former President Juvenal Habyarimana {{!}} Empennage {{!}} Air Traffic Control|website=Scribd|access-date=2019-02-12}} The manufacturer performed maintenance on the airplane a year before the crash, during which they documented that no recorders were installed (though mounting racks were in place for the operator to install them if they later decided to).{{Cite web|url=https://www.files.ethz.ch/isn/125423/1036_FalconReport.pdf|title=Report of the Investigation into the Causes and Circumstances of and Responsibility for the Attack of 06/04/1994 Against the Falcon 50 Rwandan Presidential Aeroplane, Registration number 9XR-NN|last=Mutsinzi|first=Jean}} Rwandan aviation laws at the time required all airplanes used for transporting the head of state to carry both a CVR and an FDR. The possibility that recorders were installed at some point between the work performed by Dassault and the shootdown has not been ruled out.

1994-12-21

|702P

|Air Algérie, leased from Phoenix Aviation

|Intercontinental de Aviación

|Willenhall, Coventry, United Kingdom

|Accident

|The FDR had been working only intermittently, and did not record any data from the accident flight. CVR useable {{Cite web |date=7 December 1995 |title=Report on the accident to Boeing 737-2D6C, 7T-VEE at Willenhall, Coventry, Warwickshire on 21 December 1994 |url=http://www.aaib.gov.uk/cms_resources/1-1996%207T-VEE.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120729044433/http://www.aaib.gov.uk/cms_resources.cfm?file=/1-1996%207T-VEE.pdf |archive-date=29 July 2012 |access-date=21 November 2008 |publisher=Air Accidents Investigation Branch}}

1995-01-11

|256

|McDonnell Douglas DC-9-14

|María La Baja, Colombia

|Accident

|The CVR was inoperative at the time of the accident and investigators could not determine how long it had been in that state.{{Cite web |title=Final report |url=http://www.aerocivil.gov.co/autoridad-de-la-aviacion-civil/investigacion/Histricos%20Accidentes/HK3839X.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180121071344/https://www.aerocivil.gov.co/autoridad-de-la-aviacion-civil/investigacion/Histricos%20Accidentes/HK3839X.pdf |archive-date=2018-01-21 |access-date=2014-09-06 |publisher=Colombian Civil Aviation Authority |language=es}}{{Reference page|page=34}}

1995-08-09

|901

|Aviateca

|San Vicente, El Salvador

|Accident

|The FDR was not found at the crash site, possibly scavenged from the site by locals.{{Cite web |title=Aircraft Accident Report – Aviateca Flight 901 –Boeing 737-200 15 miles NE El Salvador Intl. Arpt. – San Salvador, El Salvador – August 9, 1995 |url=http://especiales.laprensagrafica.com/2006/aviateca/Informe.pdf|access-date=22 September 2021}}

1995-12-03

|3701

|Cameroon Airlines

|Near Douala International Airport, Douala, Cameroon

|Accident

|Both recorders were destroyed in the crash.{{Cite web |title=RAPPORT FINAL - ACCIDENT DE L'AVION B.737-200 IMMATRICULE Tl-CBE SURVENU LE 03 DECEMBRE 1995 A PROXlMITE DE L'AEROPORT lNTERNATIONAL DE DOUALA (CAMEROUN) |trans-title=FINAL REPORT - ACCIDENT OF AIRCRAFT B.737-200 REGISTRATION Tl-CBE ON DECEMBER 3, 1995 NEAR DOUALA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT (CAMEROON) |url=https://www.baaa-acro.com/sites/default/files/2020-12/TJ-CBE.PDF |access-date=2024-05-22 |website= |publisher=Cameroon Civil Aviation Authority |language=fr |via=Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Archives}}{{Reference page|page=35}}

1995-12-20

|41

|Tower Air

|Boeing 747-100

|John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York City, United States

|Accident

|The FDR was inoperative during the accident due to a data acquisition unit problem.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=1996-12-02|title=Runway Departure During Attempted Takeoff, Tower Air Flight 41, Boeing 747-136, N605FF, JFK International Airport, New York, December 20, 1995|url=https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/AAR9604.pdf|access-date=2020-05-20|website=|publisher=National Transportation Safety Board|id=NTSB/AAR-96/04}}

1996-02-29

|251

|Faucett Perú

|Ciudad de Dios, Cerro Colorado District, near Arequipa, Peru

|Accident

|The FDR was usable, but the partly-burned and partly-damaged CVR had its magnetic tape broken at its beginning and only recorded isolated Spanish-language voices, possibly made during maintenance duties. Thus there was no recording of the flight crew's final moments before the crash. The airline claimed to have acquired the CVR in mid-1995, and to have done maintenance on it in two occasions immediately prior to the crash; however, the CVR's interior showed December 1989 as the date of its last opening.{{Cite web |title=Informe Final OB-1451 |trans-title=Final Report OB-1451 |url=https://cdn.www.gob.pe/uploads/document/file/3042462/Informe%20Final%20OB-1451%20%2829Feb1996%29.pdf.pdf?v=1650991747 |publisher=Ministry of Transport and Communications |pages=8–9 |language=es}}

1996-06-09

|517

|Eastwind Airlines

|Richmond International Airport, Richmond, Virginia, United States

|Incident

|CVR overwritten by other recordings.{{Cite web |date=2007-11-30 |title=National Transportation Safety Board Aviation Incident Final Report |url=https://app.ntsb.gov/pdfgenerator/ReportGeneratorFile.ashx?EventID=20001208X05950&AKey=1&RType=Final&IType=IA |access-date=2024-01-15 |publisher=National Transportation Safety Board |id=DCA96IA061}}

1996-10-22

|406

|Millon Air

|Boeing 707-320C

|Manta, Ecuador

|Accident

|The FDR presented malfunctions that precluded precise and full readouts of its data.{{clarify |date=January 2025 |reason=Is more detail available about these malfunctions?}} The device was reportedly retrofitted into the aircraft and also lacked adequate documentation.{{cite web |date=13 January 2000 |title=Controlled Flight Into Terrain, Korean Air Flight 801, Boeing 747-300, HL7468, Nimitz Hill, Guam, August 6, 1997 |url=https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/AAR0001.pdf |access-date=19 October 2015 |website= |publisher=National Transportation Safety Board |place=Washington D.C. |page=130 |id=NTSB/AAR-00/01}}https://flightsafety.org/ap/ap_sept98.pdf p. 11, Note 1.

1997-12-06

|RA-82005

|Ukrainian Cargo Airways

|Antonov An-124-100

|Mira Street, Irkutsk, Russia

|Accident

|The two flight recorders were in the center of the fire and were too badly damaged to provide meaningful data.{{Cite web |date=2007-12-06 |title=Катастрофа самолета Ан-124 в Иркутске (1997 г.) |trans-title=An-124 plane crash in Irkutsk (1997) |url=https://ria.ru/20071206/91137587.html |access-date=2021-09-22 |website=RIA Novosti |language=ru}}

1997-12-28

|826

|United Airlines

|Boeing 747-100

|Pacific Ocean

|Accident

|CVR overwritten by other recordings.{{cite web |date=14 May 2001 |title=National Transportation Safety Board Aviation Accident Final Report |url=https://app.ntsb.gov/pdfgenerator/ReportGeneratorFile.ashx?EventID=20001208X09291&AKey=1&RType=Final&IType=MA |access-date=8 October 2015 |website= |publisher=National Transportation Safety Board |id=DCA98MA015}}

1998-09-02

|111

|Swissair

|Atlantic Ocean, southwest off Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia, Canada

|Accident

|The CVR and FDR stopped functioning, likely due to fire affecting their supply of electrical power, 5 minutes and 37 seconds before impact.

1998-09-29

|602

|Lionair

|Antonov An-24RV

|Off the coast of Iranaitivu, Mannar District, Sri Lanka

|Shootdown

|No trace of either the FDR or the CVR was found among the 30% to 40% of the aircraft's wreckage that was salvaged in 2013. Only a highly corroded and damaged piece of debris was later identified as the auxiliary data recorder.https://www.caa.lk/images/pdf/past_acciden_incident_reports/18_Report_final_Lionair_LN602.pdf p. 17

1999-04-15

|6316

|Korean Air Cargo

|British Aerospace Jetstream

|Xinzhuang, Shanghai

|Accident

|FDR completely destroyed by impact.{{Cite web |title=Controlled Flight Into Terrain, KOREAN AIR FLIGHT KE6316, MD-11F HL7373, SHANGHAI, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA, APRIL 15, 1999 |url=https://asn.flightsafety.org/reports/1999/19990415_MD11_HL7373.pdf |access-date=2020-09-20 |publisher=Civil Aviation Administration of China}}{{Reference page|page=9}}

1999-08-07

|5002

|Cabo Verde Airlines

|Dornier 228

|Santo Antão, Cape Verde

|Accident

|The CVR was destroyed by post-crash fire; the airplane did not carry an FDR.{{Cite web |date=2000-08-18 |title=Rapport Final d'Enquete sur l'accident survenu le 07 Aout 1999 au Dornier 228-202K Immatricule D4-CBC Appartenant a Guarda Costeira Nacional et exploite par Transportes Aeros de Cabo Verde (TACV) sur l'ile de Santo Antão en Republique du Cap Vert |trans-title=Final Investigation Report on the accident that occurred on 7 August 1999 at Dornier 228-202K Registration D4-CBC Belonging to Guarda Costeira Nacional and operated by Transportes Aeros de Cabo Verde (TACV) on the island of Santo Antão in Cape Republic Green |url=https://asn.flightsafety.org/reports/1999/19990807_D228_D4-CBC.pdf |access-date=2024-08-03 |publisher=Ministry of Tourism and Transport |language=fr}}{{Reference page|page=45}}

1999-09-14

|3838

|Olympic Airways for the Hellenic Air Force

|Dassault Falcon 900B

|Over Călinești, Teleorman, Romania

|Accident

|No data was recorded on the CVR, which had been unserviceable and in poor technical condition long before accident. The CVR tape was broken in two parts and showed strong abrasion, the magnetic recording heads were worn out, the maximum indication of the elapsed time (5000 hrs) was exceeded, and the cover seal was found broken. FDR data was partially available. Parameters for UTC, flight number and angle of attack were not properly recorded. The initial FDR readout had a 10–12% error rate and was refined to less than 2.5% in further analysis, but there remained several sub-frames of unreliable data in the relevant period, and at one point the data was briefly recorded as invalid shortly after upset recovery due to the reconnection of generator one and the battery, which were both accidentally disconnected during the accident. Required periodic FDR readout maintenance, which might have revealed the recording problems, was at least three years overdue.{{cite report|url=https://asn.flightsafety.org/reports/1999/19990914_F900_SX-ECH.pdf|title=FINAL REPORT on the ACCIDENT of the FALCON 900B registered SX-ECH, 14 September 1999|publisher=Civil Aviation Inspectorate|date=1 August 2000|access-date=3 February 2025}}{{rp|19,30–31,55}}

2000-01-30

|431

|Kenya Airways

|Airbus A310-300

|Atlantic Ocean, East of Félix-Houphouët-Boigny International Airport, Abidjan, Ivory Coast

|Accident

|The FDR had not been operating for more than 25 flying hours due to a malfunction. The malfunction should have activated a warning light in the cockpit, and if the warning light had malfunctioned, this should have been detected by the crew during each routine pre-flight check. Operation of the plane with an FDR malfunction would not have been authorized on its previous flight, as that flight had been from an airport that had the ability to repair or replace the FDR. The technical log book was also not recovered, and copies of pages from the logbook which should have been left at the departing airport were not located.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=25 January 2002|title=Report – Accident which occurred on 30 January 2000 in the sea near Abidjan Airport to the Airbus 310–304 registered 5Y-BEN operated by Kenya Airways|url=https://www.bea.aero/docspa/2000/5y-n000130a/pdf/5y-n000130a.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190130053439/https://www.bea.aero/docspa/2000/5y-n000130a/pdf/5y-n000130a.pdf|archive-date=30 January 2019|access-date=|website=|publisher=Bureau of Enquiry and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety}}

2000-05-21

|N16EJ

|East Coast Aviation Services d/b/a Executive Airlines

|Bear Creek Township, Pennsylvania, United States

|Accident

|The CVR did not record data from the accident flight. Although it was concluded that the CVR was capable of recording information, it had apparently never functioned since its installation on the airplane. The investigators could not determine why it did not operate, but concluded that a cockpit functional check should have indicated to flight crews that it was not operating. The airplane did not carry an FDR (and was not required to have one).{{cite web |date=26 August 2002 |title=Crash of Executive Airlines Jetstream 3101, Bear Creek Township, Pennsylvania, May 21, 2000 |url=https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/AAB0205.pdf |publisher=National Transportation Safety Board |id=NTSB/AAB-02/05}}

2001-03-03

|114

|Thai Airways International

|Boeing 737-400

|Don Mueang International Airport, Bangkok, Thailand

|Accident

|The FDR was not operating at the time of the explosion, which occurred on the ground before the engines were started.{{cite report|url=https://asn.flightsafety.org/reports/2001/20010303_B734_HS-TDC.pdf|title=Aircraft Accident Report Thai Airways International Company Limited Boeing Company 737-400, HS-TDC Bangkok International Airport Thailand 3 March B.E. 2544 (A.D. 2001) |publisher=Aircraft Accident Investigation Committee |date=April 2005 |access-date=20 June 2025}}{{rp|5}}

2001-09-11

|11

|American Airlines

|Boeing 767-200ER

|North World Trade Center, New York City, United States

|Hijack

|Neither flight recorder was ever found.[https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GPO-911REPORT/pdf/GPO-911REPORT.pdf 9/11 Commission Report, Notes to Chapter 1, note 76, p. 456 (PDF p. 474)],

2001-09-11

|175

|United Airlines

|Boeing 767-200

|South World Trade Center, New York City

|Hijack

|Neither flight recorder was ever found.

2001-09-11

|77

|American Airlines

|Boeing 757-200

|Pentagon, Washington D.C., United States

|Hijack

|The CVR was too badly damaged by fire to provide any information.

2001-10-04

|1812

|Siberia Airlines

|Tupolev Tu-154

|Black Sea

|Shootdown

|Resting at a water depth of {{convert|3300|ft|m|abbr=on}}; neither recorder was found.{{cite news|last=Gilmore |first=Inigi |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/1358757/Israel-accuses-Ukraine-of-hiding-missile-strike-that-destroyed-jet.html |title=Israel accuses Ukraine of hiding missile strike that destroyed jet |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |date=2001-10-07 |access-date=30 April 2015}}

2000-11-05

|070

|Cameroon Airlines

|Boeing 747-200

|Charles de Gaulle Airport, Paris, France

|Accident

|CVR overwritten by other recordings.[http://www.bea.aero/docspa/2000/tj-b001105a/pdf/tj-b001105a.pdf Official BEA report on Flight 070] ([https://web.archive.org/web/20150620185708/http://www.bea.aero/docspa/2000/tj-b001105a/pdf/tj-b001105a.pdf Archive]) – [http://www.bea.aero/docspa/2000/tj-b001105/pdf/tj-b001105.pdf Original French version] ([https://web.archive.org/web/20140826120350/http://www.bea.aero/docspa/2000/tj-b001105/pdf/tj-b001105.pdf Archive])

2002-05-04

|4226

|EAS Airlines

|BAC One-Eleven 525FT

|Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, Kano, Nigeria

|Accident

|The FDR was recovered but inoperative; it had never been maintained by the airline and contained only recordings from flights carried out during its operation with previous airlines in Europe. The CVR was missing from the crash site.{{cite web |date=26 November 2002 |title=Civil Aviation Accident Report No. 382 |url=https://aib.gov.ng/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/EAS-5N-ESF.pdf |website=Accident Investigation and Prevention Bureau}}

2002-07-28

|9560

|Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise

|Ilyushin Il-86

|Near Sheremetyevo International Airport, Moscow, Russia

|Accident

|The FDR lacked information on the primary and backup stabilizer control systems, and there was a lack of crew comments on the CVR.{{Cite web |last=Ranter |first=Harro |date= |title=ASN Aircraft accident Ilyushin Il-86 RA-86060 Moskva-Sheremetyevo Airport (SVO) |url=http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20020728-0 |access-date=2019-04-10 |website=Aviation Safety Network |publisher=Flight Safety Foundation}}{{clarify |date=January 2025 |reason=Why?}}

2002-08-30

|4823

|Rico Linhas Aéreas

|Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia

|Near Rio Branco International Airport, Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil

|Accident

|Both recorders were inoperative on the accident flight.{{Cite web |title=Final report |url=http://sistema.cenipa.fab.mil.br/cenipa/paginas/relatorios/rf/pt/pt_wrq_30_08_2002.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231016112323/http://sistema.cenipa.fab.mil.br/cenipa/paginas/relatorios/rf/pt/pt_wrq_30_08_2002.pdf |archive-date=2023-10-16 |access-date=2020-07-11 |website=sistema.cenipa.aer.mil.br |language=pt}}

2003-05-25

|N844AA

|Aerospace Sales & Leasing

|Boeing 727

|Luanda, Angola

|Unknown

|Aircraft stolen, current whereabouts are unknown.

2003-05-26

|4230

|Ukrainian-Mediterranean Airlines

|Yakovlev Yak-42

|Trabzon, Turkey

|Accident

|The CVR was inoperative before the flight.{{clarify |date=January 2025 |reason=Why was it inoperative?}} The fuel indicator of the FDR was also not working.https://www.eurocockpit.eu/sites/default/files/YAK-42_Accident_PilotFatigue_May2005.pdf Informativos Telecinco (via European Cockpit Association). 23 May 2005_

2004-05-14

|4815

|Rico Linhas Aéreas

|Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia

|Eduardo Gomes International Airport

|Accident

|The FDR did not record any data.{{Cite web |date=2005-08-09 |title=Final report |url=https://sistema.cenipa.fab.mil.br/cenipa/paginas/relatorios/rf/pt/pt_wro_14_05_04.pdf |access-date=2020-07-11 |website=CENIPA |language=pt}}

2004-10-14

|1602

|MK Airlines

|Boeing 747-200SF

|Halifax Stanfield International Airport, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

|Accident

|The CVR was exposed to extreme heat for an extended period which melted the recording tape.{{Cite web|last=Government of Canada|first=Transportation Safety Board of Canada|date=2006-04-06|title=Aviation Investigation Report A04H0004|url=https://www.tsb.gc.ca/eng/rapports-reports/aviation/2004/a04h0004/a04h0004.html|access-date=2021-09-22|website=www.tsb.gc.ca}}

2005-02-03

|904

|Kam Air

|Pamir Mountains, Afghanistan

|Accident

|The crash site was located at a near inaccessible area of the Pamir Mountains. Most of the wreckage was buried in deep snow, and specialists had to clear landmines from the area before it could be accessed. The FDR was eventually found with extreme difficulty, but it did not contain data due to a pre-existing fault in the data acquisition unit. The CVR was never found, and at least one investigator was killed during the search.

2005-09-05

|091

|Mandala Airlines

|Boeing 737-200 Advanced

|Polonia International Airport, Medan, Indonesia

|Accident

|Both recorders were found, and the captain and first officer's audio channels were recorded well, but the cockpit area microphone signal on the CVR was of poor quality, consistent with an intermittent electrical connection in the wiring circuit. The signal had an excessive amount of electrically induced noise or hum. Although some sounds were recorded on that channel, it was not possible to reach definitive conclusions about some important sounds that should have been recorded.{{cite web|url=http://knkt.dephub.go.id/knkt/ntsc_aviation/baru/Final_Report_Mandala_PK-RIM.pdf|title=Aircraft Accident Report|publisher=National Transportation Safety Committee|date=5 September 2005|access-date=7 February 2017|archive-date=26 February 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120226180210/http://www.dephub.go.id/knkt/ntsc_aviation/baru/Final_Report_Mandala_PK-RIM.pdf|url-status=dead}}

2005-10-22

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|Bellview Airlines