Every commercial aircraft carries two devices designed to outlast the catastrophic forces of a crash: the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder, collectively known as black boxes. These ...

Investigators seeking answers about what caused an Alaska Airlines plane’s near-catastrophic midflight blowout on Jan. 5 are working without a key piece of evidence: audio from the flight’s black box ...

As the search continues for wreckage from the missing Malaysia Airlines plane it’s probable that answers surrounding the mystery of flight MH370 will not be available until the recorders are recovered ...

One of the two black box flight recorders from the EgyptAir plane that plunged into the Mediterranean last month has been repaired, Egypt's investigation commission said Tuesday, prompting hopes it ...

Investigators say they have recovered the flight and voice recorder from an Army Black Hawk helicopter that collided with a passenger jet on Wednesday outside of Reagan National Airport. In a Friday ...

There are usually a lot of questions when a plane crashes. And the one thing that can help provide some much-needed context is the black box. Interestingly, an airplane's black box isn't really black, ...

When a commercial flight goes down, investigators immediately search for the flight recorder to decipher what went wrong in ...

Cairo — One of the two black box flight recorders from the EgyptAir plane that plunged into the Mediterranean last month has been repaired, Egypt’s investigation commission said Tuesday, prompting ...