Video footage from inside planes Oscar Déniz30th March 201530th March 2015 Information The long debate on whether airplane cockpits should be equipped with cameras dates back at least 15 years, when the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) first pushed regulators to require video monitoring following what the agency called “several accidents involving a lack of information regarding crewmember actions and the flight deck environment.”. The latest NTSB recommendation for a cockpit image system (PDF) came in January 2015. ← Pocket camera helps the visually impaired navigate the world Embedded vision PhD internships →