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?

Some have suggested that it stems from Hussenot's device, because it used film and "ran continuously in a light-tight box, ...

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The first thing to know about an aircraft's “black box” is that it's actually bright orange. There are also two of them: one ...

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Sixty-seven people died in a collision between a Bombardier CRJ700 regional jet operated by PSA Airlines and a military Black ...

The NTSB said a preliminary report, to be released within a month, will contain "factual information" gathered in the ...

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Officials are examining black boxes from both aircraft and say they appear to be in good condition and may provide details on ...

A black box is a flight-data recorders that collect information ... according to the NTSB. The first, called the Cockpit Voice Recorder, records radio transmissions and sounds in the cockpit ...

The so-called “black box." There are actually two of these remarkably sturdy devices: the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder. And they're typically orange, not black.