The NTSB is investigating the cause of a near-catastrophic midflight blowout aboard an Alaska Airlines flight on Friday, but the flight’s black box voice recording was erased before it could be ...

If you want to establish why a plane crashed, you need to retrieve the black box. This virtually indestructible orange device ...

The crash occurred just before 9 p.m. Wednesday when American Airlines Flight 5342 from Wichita, Kansas, attempted to land and collided in midair with the Black Hawk helicopter.

The second black box from Lion Air flight 610, which crashed in October 2018, was recovered in January 2019. Azwar Ipank/AFP/Getty Images ...

The earliest models recorded data with a moving stylus on a roll of foil; as recently as 1994, when USAir flight 427 rolled over and crashed on approach to Pittsburgh, the flight-data recorder on ...

David Warren, 85, an Australian scientist who invented the flight data recorder, the so-called "black box" that has helped solve airplane crashes and has improved airline safety around the world ...

DC plane crash latest updates: Flight recorder 'black box' from army Black Hawk helicopter recovered from wreckage - None of the 67 passengers and crew are believed to have survived ...

Flight recorders or 'black boxes', have been used in investigations of aviation catastrophes since the mid-20th century. They have developed considerably over the years. We take a look back at ...

With one of the black boxes from the China Eastern Airlines crash reportedly found, here's exactly what the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder do on airliners.

The recorder "will answer the question whether the rebels shot without even asking any questions of the Malaysia air Flight 17 crew," Green said. Marks was pessimistic about a radio warning.

AirAsia Flight 8501: Jet’s Black Boxes Are Found Searchers Retrieve Data Recorder and Locate Cockpit Recorder By Ben Otto Follow in Jakarta, Indonesia, and Richard C. Paddock in Pangkalan Bun ...