What is a black box, what can it tell us, and have the data recorders been found from Flight 5342 and the Army's Blackhawk?
Some have suggested that it stems from Hussenot's device, because it used film and "ran continuously in a light-tight box, ...
Other theories include the boxes turning black when they get charred in a crash, the Smithsonian Magazine wrote in 2019. “The truth is much more mundane,” the magazine wrote.