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 ...

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, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

The country has located the black box of a F-16 fighter jet that apparently crashed into the sea last week, the Air Force ...

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 ...