I've watched nearly all the "Aviation Disasters" episodes. I don't recall any footage other than incidental amateur footage. The investigators spend a lot of time even figuring out where on the runway the various planes were, implying there was no footage.

How does hiding videos help anyone? It's not like the footage magicaly disappears when you show it to the public and investigators can't use it. We live in the digital era, it takes like 7 clicks to share the footage to the entire world. Are pilots and engineers around the world gonna be better at preventing this type of disaster if we all make sure they never ever get to see it?

After all these years, have you ever wondered why zero footage of the SST that caught fire taking off have surfaced? Or even photos? That the only video of it was taken from a car on a nearby highway?

We all know the cockpit voice recorder exists and is essential for investigating a crash. I seriously doubt there are secret cameras recording the tarmac and it's all been hushed up. There are simply no cameras there.

It's normal for the cockpit voice recorder to exist and be a front and center part of a crash investigation. It is for this crash, too. There's no mention of any tarmac camera recording.

I brought this point up online over 20 years ago. The pushback I got was it was too expensive to set up such cameras. I countered with if a 7-11 could install a security camera that recorded on VHS tapes, a couple cameras could be mounted in the control tower pointed at the runway. I still got a lot of pushback.

Frankly, I'm baffled.

So why do you think such cameras don't exist?

P.S. Back then, as well as today, I'm surprised at the level of pushback on this question, but no answers.