Flight recorders come with two separate components: a data recorder and a voice recorder. "The data recorder can oftentimes ...

said in an update at 4:30 p.m. Friday that the black box from the Black Hawk helicopter that collided with a commercial plane in Washington D.C. has been recovered. Investigators are reviewing the ...

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 ...

Digital flight data recorders, which record speed, altitude and other critical information, must now also record more data more frequently. The devices, commonly called "black boxes," are orange ...

New details have been revealed about the tourist helicopter that crashed in New York City on April 10, killing all six people ...

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 ...

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 ...

Popularly known as "black boxes," event data recorders (EDRs) have helped investigators solve the mysteries of airplane crashes for decades. Now they've become standard in almost every new car sold.

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.