When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. "Black box" flight recorders are orange to make them stand out and easy to retrieve in a crash ...

Turkish Transport Minister Abdulkadir Uraloğlu said investigations have shown damage to the flight data recorder (black box) ...

There are usually a lot of questions when a plane crashes. And the one thing that can help provide some much-needed context is the black box. Interestingly, an airplane's black box isn't really black, ...

The mangled tail section of an AirAsia A320 that went down in the Java Sea last month has been lifted to the surface, but the "black boxes" searchers hoped to find in the debris were not immediately ...

Air accident investigators in Delhi have begun studying data downloaded from two black boxes from the crash site of Air India flight 171 in Ahmedabad after they were recovered two days apart by State ...

The plane had sent a series of warnings indicating that smoke had been detected on board through SCARS. Investigators have downloaded data from one of the black box flight recorders on EgyptAir Flight ...

MORE SURVIVORS EITHER AT THAT SITE, THOUGH. THE BLACK BOX HAS BEEN RECOVERED BY NTSB INVESTIGATORS WHO ARRIVED IN LOUISVILLE YESTERDAY. OUR SAM CARTER IS LIVE FOR US WITH THE VERY LATEST ON THAT ...

Pilots might be able to breathe during a smoke emergency, but landing is a problem if pilots can't see their instruments. Threats ranging from ballistic missiles to drones proliferate in the Gulf ...

In the mid-1950s, while investigating a series of mysterious crashes of the de Havilland Comet — the world's first commercial jet airliner — David Warren thought of a solution that would assist with ...

Modern flight recorders can hold more than 1,000 pieces of information about an aircraft. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In the ...