Airplane's black boxes are deliberately designed to survive worst-case scenarios. How do they do this? We look at their ...

A preliminary report into the Air India disaster has been released based on the data recovered from the plane’s black boxes ...

What is a black box, ... "It transmits an acoustical signal on 37.5 KHz that can be detected with a special receiver," the sheet reads. "The beacon can transmit from depths down to 14,000 feet." ...

A team led by AAIB director general Yugandhar, along with experts from AAIB and the US NTSB, has begun extracting data from the black box.

The first data from the two black boxes of the fatal Air India crash earlier this month has been recovered. Flight AI171 bound for London Gatwick crashed shortly after take-off from Ahmedabad Airport.

The black box from United Airlines Flight 93 revealed sounds of a struggle as passengers tried to reclaim ... based on the flight plan or last known signal from its transponder, not necessarily ...

South Korean plane's black boxes stopped recording about 4 minutes before crash 00:25. The black boxes of the passenger jetliner that crashed in South Korea last month killing 179 people stopped ...

WASHINGTON — 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 ...

There are two main theories behind the naming of the black box. The first theory traces back to the late 1930s, when François Hussenot invented the first flight recorders.