In the event of an airplane accident, the flight recorder provides data that is invaluable for clarification. The device was ...

The crash occurred just before 9 p.m. Wednesday when American Airlines Flight 5342 from Wichita, Kansas, attempted to land ...

After I watched a rough cut of "Crash of Flight 111" here at the NOVA offices, a colleague who watched it with me asked, "Why don't they just beam black-box data in real time to ground stations ...

The black box is a flight data recorder that documents all actions and speech made in the cockpit of a commercial aircraft.

The first thing to know about an airliner’s “black box” is that it’s actually bright orange. There are also two of them: one records mounds of flight data, from the aircraft's speed and ...

Map showing the possible MH370 black box ping locations Updated @ 06:30 April 1: We're now three weeks into the search for Malaysian Airlines flight 370. Satellites and aircraft continue to spot ...

The jet’s disappearance remains one of the great aviation mysteries. The black box from United Airlines Flight 93 revealed sounds of a struggle as passengers tried to reclaim control of the ...

(1) See black box testing and Black Box Corporation. (2) An electronic device that records airplane flight data. Officially a "flight data recorder," the unit is highly protected and can emit a ...

A chilling black box recording revealed the final moments before a Russian passenger jet plunged into the mountains, all because a pilot let his children handle the controls mid-flight.

Flight data from one of the Boeing 737-800’s black boxes suggested someone in the cockpit intentionally crashed the plane, reported the Wall Street Journal. The plane was travelling from Kunming ...

NOVA: How useful were the black boxes in the subsequent inquiry? Evans: The cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder lost power about six minutes before the airplane finally crashed.