What is a black box, what can it tell us, and have the data recorders been found from Flight 5342 and the Army's Blackhawk?

The so-called “black box” is one of the most important pieces of forensic evidence following a plane crash. There are ...

American Airlines Flight 5342 from Wichita, Kansas, was attempting to land when the plane and a Black Hawk helicopter ...

The young patient and five others killed when their plane crashed into a Philadelphia neighborhood moments after takeoff ...

A black box from the medical jet that crashed in Northeast Philadelphia has been found, the NTSB said on Sunday.

Black boxes, which are actually orange so they can be found after a wreck, include flight data and voice recorders.

The black box was discovered eight feet underground at the crash site after a two-day search and is in “decent shape,” ...

Data from air traffic control radar showed the military chopper was flying at 300 feet on the air traffic control display at ...

For example, black boxes of an Air France flight that crashed in the Atlantic Ocean in 2009 were found two years later from a depth of more than 10,000 feet, and technicians were able to recover ...

Here is an explanation of what black boxes are and what they can do: The cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder are tools that help investigators reconstruct the events that lead up ...