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 ...

Airplane's black boxes are deliberately designed to survive worst-case scenarios. How do they do this? We look at their ...

Flight data recorder from Sriwijaya Air jet that plunged into the sea just after takeoff with 62 people on board should help explain the crash, but another black box is still missing.

Angus Houston, the head of a joint agency coordinating the search in the southern Indian Ocean, ... Underwater sounds consistent with those from black box recorder, official says.

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

The cockpit voice recorder of the doomed EgyptAir plane that crashed last month killing all 66 people on board has been found and pulled out of the Mediterranean Sea, Egypt's investigation ...

A black box must be able to withstand impacts up to 3,400 Gs and fires lasting 30 minutes and reaching temperatures of 2,000°F. Black boxes used today must meet exacting specifications.

To investigators struggling to reconstruct what happened to TWA Flight 800, nothing is more critical than retrieving the two shoe box-size containers that cradle the flight data and cockpit voice r… ...

Now five weeks into the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, the batteries on the all-important black box recorder are thought to be dead. By Adam Chandler. April 13, 2014. Share.

In a search full of spurious leads, floating garbage, and nonsense satellite images, the only real hope for answers has turned on finding the black box data recorder belonging to missing Malaysia ...