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Olg: Justice Shall Not Evaluate Flight Recorders

Summary by Kronen Zeitung
According to the Oberlandesgericht (OLG) Wien, the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder of an Austrian Airlines aircraft seriously damaged by hail in June 2024 were not correct. Accordingly, the data must not be evaluated by the StA. The security investigation body of the federal government (SUB) was responsible, the AUA was now confirmed. The "hail flight" was therefore classified by the OLG as a fault, but not an accident. The s…

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According to the Oberlandesgericht (OLG) Wien, the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder of an Austrian Airlines aircraft seriously damaged by hail in June 2024 were not correct. Accordingly, the data must not be evaluated by the StA. The security investigation body of the federal government (SUB) was responsible, the AUA was now confirmed. The "hail flight" was therefore classified by the OLG as a fault, but not an accident. The s…

·Vienna, Austria
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The public prosecutor's office Korneuburg is not allowed to evaluate the data of the AUA hail flight, as is now clear. Instead, the security investigation body of the federal government is responsible. According to the Oberlandesgericht (OLG) Vienna, the securing of the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder of an Austrian Airlines aircraft seriously damaged by hail in June 2024 was not correct. Accordingly, the data must not be eva…

The decision is a setback for the prosecution, a success for the AUA.

In the summer of 2024 an AUA aircraft got into a hailstorm and was badly damaged. Now a court has decided that flight recorders and voice recorders should not be evaluated. That is incomprehensible for passenger lawyer Wolfgang List.

·Vienna, Austria
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ORF.at News broke the news in Vienna, Austria on Thursday, February 19, 2026.
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