The Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 accident revealed critical issues related to the power sources for the Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) and Flight Data Recorder (FDR). According to preliminary statements from South Korea’s Ministry of Transport, both recorders stopped functioning approximately four minutes before impact.

Mar 15, 2019 · Figuring out what happened to Ethiopian Flight 302 may involve baking the black box recorders in an oven, but the information investigators recover can be crucial to preventing future crashes.

Jan 11, 2025 · Officials say the black boxes of a Boeing jetliner that crashed in South Korea last month stopped recording about four minutes before the accident. The discovery could complicate investigations into the cause of the disaster that killed 179 people.

3 days ago · “In the post-World War II field of electronic circuitry, black box became the ubiquitous term for a self-contained electronic device whose input and output were more defining than its internal operations.” The media continues to use the term, the magazine wrote, “because of the sense of mystery it conveys in the aftermath of an air ...

3 days ago · How big is a black box. They weigh about 10 pounds (4.5 kilos) and contain four main parts: ... but only came into effect eight months after the 737-800 involved in the Jeju crash left the Boeing ...

Jan 1, 2025 · Investigators probing a Jeju Air crash which killed 179 people in the worst aviation disaster on South Korean soil have extracted the initial data from one of the Boeing 737-800’s black boxes, an official said Wednesday.

Mar 14, 2024 · New Zealand authorities were able to remove the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder from the Boeing 787-9 that experienced a “technical event” on Monday’s LATAM Airlines Flight 800, a...

Feb 27, 2024 · Black boxes help investigators determine what happened in an airplane accident. What's inside a black box and how does it record flight data?

Mar 17, 2024 · Running to the tail of Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner is an umbilical cord carrying a rapid play-by-play of virtually every flight feature.

3 days ago · It's one of the most important pieces of forensic evidence following a plane crash: The so-called “black box." There are actually two of these remarkably sturdy devices: the cockpit voice ...