It's one of the most important pieces of forensic evidence following a plane crash: The so-called “black box." There are actually two of these remarkably sturdy devices: the cockpit voice recorder and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As the recovery operation continued after a commercial airliner collided with an Army helicopter near the nation's capital this ...

It's one of the most important pieces of forensic evidence following a plane crash: The so-called “black box."There are actually two of these remarkably sturdy devices: the cockpit voice recorder and ...

A preliminary report into last month’s Air India plane crash has suggested the aircraft’s fuel control switches were turned off, starving the engines of fuel and causing a loss of engine thrust ...

It's one of the most important pieces of forensic evidence following a plane crash: The so-called “black box." There are actually two of these remarkably sturdy devices: the cockpit voice recorder and ...

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, ...

Cairo — One of the two black box flight recorders from the EgyptAir plane that plunged into the Mediterranean last month has been repaired, Egypt’s investigation commission said Tuesday, prompting ...

Most people know that electronic flight data recorders -- also known as "black boxes" -- are a critical source of information to aircraft crash investigators. Yet most motorists don't realize that if ...