When an airplane crash occurs, finding answers is suddenly both imperative and intimate. Relatives, survivors, and ...

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 ...

Airplanes constantly collect and store vital flight data using systems designed to survive even the worst-case scenarios.

A preliminary report into the Air India disaster has been released based on the data recovered from the plane’s black boxes ...

‘Black boxes’ tell of tragedies Recorders: A plane’s flight data and voice recorders are critical to dissecting aviation disasters. To fully understand what happened to TWA Flight 800, their ...

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

In the wake of the recent Air India Boeing 787 crash, global attention has turned once again to the aircraft’s \"black boxes\ ...

This is a black box. If a plane goes down in the middle of the ocean the crucial data about the last moments of the flight go with it. There’s a better way to do this ...

AHMEDABAD, India (AP) — Indian investigators on Friday recovered the digital flight data recorder, or the black box, of the Air India flight that fell from the sky and killed 241 people on board and ...

For example, black boxes of an Air France flight that crashed in the Atlantic Ocean in 2009 were found two years later from a depth of more than 10,000 feet, and technicians were able to recover ...

Investigators have downloaded flight recorder data from an Air India crash this month that killed 260 people, India's civil ...

Air India plane crash investigators have found both of the Boeing 787's "black boxes," hopefully brining an understanding of ...