When an airplane crash occurs, finding answers is suddenly both imperative and intimate. Relatives, survivors, and ...

Then there are those who appear convinced that it couldn’t have been the pilots, and believe that something was wrong with ...

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 ...

‘Black boxes’ tell of tragedies Recorders: A plane’s flight data and voice recorders are critical to dissecting aviation disasters. To fully understand what happened to TWA Flight 800, their ...

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 ...

Airplane's black boxes are deliberately designed to survive worst-case scenarios. This is due to their design and materials — ...

Black boxes, also known as flight recorders, are crucial to aviation safety.They are designed to withstand extreme conditions and record various types of flight data, as well as cockpit audio.

The second black box from Lion Air flight 610, which crashed in October 2018, was recovered in January 2019. Azwar Ipank/AFP/Getty Images ...

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

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 ...

Air India plane crash investigators have found both of the Boeing 787's "black boxes," hopefully brining an understanding of ...

Investigators have downloaded flight recorder data from an Air India crash this month that killed 260 people, India's civil aviation ministry said on Thursday, a long-awaited step towards ...