recovery of traditional fixed recorders and wreckage from underwater crash sites. (19) CVRs provide unique information with which the NTSB can conduct more thorough investigations to target safety recommendations more effectively. The current 2-hour CVR standard recording duration has hampered safety investigations because relevant portions of the recordings were overwritten. In 2018, the NTSB issued Recommendation (A–18–30) calling for the CVR recording requirement to be extended to 25 hours, which will bring the U.S. into compliance with European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) standards. 3. Regulations requiring additional flight recorder system and other purposes (a) In general Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration shall issue such regulations as are necessary to require that all newly manufactured aircraft used in extended overwater operations and operating under part 121 or part 135 of title 14, Code of Federal Regulations, that are required to have a CVR and a FDR— (1) be equipped with a means to recover, at a minimum, mandatory flight data parameters that does not require underwater retrieval