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A system for monitoring and recording the movement of aircraft and their external characteristics and paths during and after landing and take-off from an airport runway detects malfunctions, pilot error, equipment failure or other evidence that might assist in determining the cause of a crash or oth

A system for monitoring and recording the movement of aircraft and their external characteristics and paths during and after landing and take-off from an airport runway detects malfunctions, pilot error, equipment failure or other evidence that might assist in determining the cause of a crash or other malfunction. The system includes a plurality of video cameras located adjacent to the runway, a video recording device for saving information from the cameras, and video transmission means connecting the cameras to the recording device.

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A system for monitoring aircraft taking off and landing on an airport runway, comprising: at least four video cameras located adjacent to the runway, each of the cameras being trained at a different portion of the runway, each of the video cameras adapted for transmitting video signals, said video c

A system for monitoring aircraft taking off and landing on an airport runway, comprising: at least four video cameras located adjacent to the runway, each of the cameras being trained at a different portion of the runway, each of the video cameras adapted for transmitting video signals, said video cameras including: a first video camera located adjacent one end of the runway and generally along the longitudinal axis of the runway, a second video camera located adjacent the other end of the runway and generally along the longitudinal axis of the runway, a third video camera located adjacent one side of the runway and generally toward said one end of the runway, and a fourth video camera located adjacent the other side of the runway and generally toward said other end of the runway; at least one video recording device for receiving the video signals transmitted by said video cameras; and video transmission means connecting the cameras to the recording device for transmitting the video signals from the video cameras to the video recording device; whereby the monitoring system observes and records a visual image of aircraft depicting their external characteristics, the path taken by the aircraft before during and after landing or take-off from the runways, to detect malfunctions, pilot error, equipment failure or other evidence which may assist in determining the cause of a crash.