Or a fire could knock them out, as happened five minutes before Swissair Flight 111 crashed off the coast of Nova Scotia in 1998. Investigators are always looking for clues from the recorders.

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The deadly Air India crash has renewed a decades-old debate in the aviation industry over installing video cameras to monitor airline pilot actions.

Cockpit video recorders, like the Flight Data Recorder (FDR) and the Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR), are essential safety tools ...

The NTSB has recovered the flight data and cockpit voice recorders from the Bombardier CRJ700 involved in the deadly midair collision near D.C., with analysis underway to determine the cause.

In 1957, Dr. David Warren of ARL and his team, Kenneth Fraser, Lane Sear, and Dr. Walter Boswell, produced the world’s first black box flight recorder.

The NTSB has secured two separate flight recorders from the CRJ, and while data is being processed, the release of victim names will not occur. A Black Hawk black box is also being analyzed for ...

Indonesian navy divers on Thursday recovered the flight recorder of the 2-month-old Lion Air jet that crashed into the sea minutes after takeoff earlier this week, killing all 189 passengers and ...

On his flight to London in 1958 to demonstrate his invention, one of the engines of the airplane failed. He turned on his recorder and made observations from his passenger seat.

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, still missing somewhere in the Indian Ocean, could force the development of the next generation of flight-data recorders, which are often called “black boxes.” ...

Divers have retrieved the flight data recorder from the Indonesian airliner that plunged into the Java Sea with 62 passengers and crew on board, officials said Tuesday. They also detected a radio ...