Patent ID: 7761544

Claim:
An apparatus for the recording, playback and investigation of an event associated with a transportation vehicle, from at least two synchronized streams carrying audio and video and data information associated with the transportation vehicle, the transportation vehicle being in communication with a command and control center, the apparatus comprising: at least two capture devices for capturing the at least two synchronized streams carrying audio and video and data information depicting activities associated with the event; at least one recording device for recording the at least two synchronized streams depicting the activities associated with the transportation vehicle in synchronization; at least one communication device for communicating at least one of the at least two recorded streams to a monitoring station; an investigative tool for debriefing the event at a later stage; a command and control center interface for establishing a link between the command and control center and a remote command and control center; and a multi-channel multimedia recording application that receives and records data information from the at least two capture devices capturing activities in or near the transportation vehicle, and information transmitted from the remote command and control center, wherein communication between the command and control center and the remote command and control center is captured at the command and control center, wherein the multi-channel multimedia recording application records the data indexed and formatted into a database and wherein at least one of the at least two streams is synchronized with a radio transmission or communication made by a person on the vehicle.