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 ...

An aircraft's black box consists of two separate systems: the Flight Data Recorder (FDR) and the Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR). The FDR logs and stores a wide range of data points for a 24-hour ...

When a plane goes down, one of the first things safety investigators do is search for its black box recorder, which can provide a valuable starting point for determining what went wrong. It’s an ...

When a plane crashes, it can take many months or years to find the black box that provides clues to what happened. Just what are these devices, how do they work, and why can they be so hard to find?

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, ...

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 ...

But they're not as sophisticated as black-box recorders in planes. "The biggest difference being, an airplane's crash recorder is recording the whole time" the plane is in use, Arbelaez said.