Every commercial aircraft carries two devices designed to outlast the catastrophic forces of a crash: the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder, collectively known as black boxes. These ...

TOKYO (AP) — An initial analysis of flight data recorders recovered from the crash of two Japanese navy helicopters showed no sign of mechanical problems, Japan’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Air accident investigators in Delhi have begun studying data downloaded from two black boxes from the crash site of Air India ...

Every time there’s a plane crash or other aviation safety incident, we often hear talk of the famous “black box”. Of course, anyone these days will tell you that they’re not black, but orange, for ...

Russian investigators have disclosed that flight-data recordings from an Angara Airlines Antonov An-24 were destroyed by fire when the aircraft crashed into a forest in the Amur region. The Interstate ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - A critical part of the NTSB investigation into the events leading up to the midair collision between an Army helicopter and Flight 5342 revolves around the flight recorder, ...

Officials said the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder are now headed to the NTSB laboratory in Washington, D.C.

POKHARA, Nepal (AP) — Search teams retrieved the flight data and cockpit voice recorders Monday of a passenger plane that plummeted into a gorge on approach to a new airport in the foothills of the ...

All passengers and crew aboard the American Airlines flight that collided with an Army Helicopter near Washington, D.C.’s Ronald Reagan National Airport are presumed dead, officials said Thursday. The ...