If the so-called black boxes survive a plane crash, why can’t we just make the whole plane out of the same stuff as the box? They’d never get off the ground. Planes are built of lightweight material ...

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

The best part about traveling via airplane is that it can help you reach your destination faster than other modes of transportation. However, a big risk that comes while traveling via airplane is ...

"Black box" flight recorders are orange to make them stand out and easy to retrieve in a crash scene. | Credit: marko_n via Getty Images In the mid-1950s, while investigating a series of ...

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 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 ...

Warren's work was not properly recognized until very late, as Jeremy Sear describes in detail in 2001 in "The ARL 'Black Box' Flight Recorder – Invention and Memory" (PDF). Ken Fraser ...

(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 ...

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.

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 ...