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

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 ...

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

Jakarta, Indonesia — Indonesian navy divers searching the ocean floor have recovered one of the "black box" data recorders from the Sriwijaya Air jet that crashed into the Java Sea with 62 ...

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In the high-stakes world of aviation, the black box, officially known as the flight recorder, is recognized as an important device for flight safety and accountability. Black boxes have often been ...

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.

Investigators seeking answers about what caused an Alaska Airlines plane’s near-catastrophic midflight blowout are working without a key piece of evidence: audio from the flight’s black… ...

The black box recorder from the medical plane that crashed in Northeast Philadelphia, killing seven people and injuring two dozen, did not record audio from Jan. 31 and was likely not working for ...

The Australian Defense vessel Ocean Shield tows a pinger locator in the first search for the missing flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder in the southern Indian Ocean.

Egypt's investigation committee says the cockpit voice recorder of the doomed EgyptAir plane has been found and pulled out of the Mediterranean Sea.