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

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 ...

The pilots’ conversation with air traffic controllers, revealed in a partial transcript, could offer clues to what caused the ...

Honduran authorities are still frantically searching for the black box of the Lanhsa Airlines small plane that crashed and killed 12 people. The flight recorder is believed to be inside the ...

Accident investigators have recovered black boxes from both the American Airlines ... which retains cockpit voice and flight data, Inman said. The jet’s cockpit voice recorder has sustained ...

Flying is one of the safest ways to travel, but there’s always more to planes than meets the eye. Here are seven surprising ...

[AFP] Investigators on Thursday recovered the black boxes from a passenger plane that collided mid-air with a military helicopter over Washington's Potomac River, killing all 67 people, as ...