The black box of an airplane is a safety device meant to help determine what happened in the event of a catastrophic accident ...

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 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 ...

(CNN)-- The "black ... aircraft has been destroyed, according to Benich. "It's not as much about the materials as it is about the design," he said. The exact origin of the term "black box" is ...

PHILADELPHIA — The cockpit voice recorder was not working on a medical transport plane that killed seven ... Learjet 55 and a seventh person who was inside a vehicle on the ground.

The devices, commonly called "black boxes," are orange to make them easier ... in which it was determined the co-pilot intentionally flew the plane into the sea. Pilot groups have opposed the ...

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 plane, carrying 181 people, crashed while landing on Sunday, killing most on board. (CHANG W. LEE/The New York Times) SEOUL, South Korea — The black boxes ... for hours. Inside the ...

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SHAH ALAM: Efforts to recover the black box from the ill-fated plane which crashed near Elmina Township are ongoing, says Anthony Loke. "The mission to recover the black box is underway," the ...