The report based its finding on the data recovered from the plane’s black boxes — combined cockpit voice recorders and flight data recorders. The cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder ...

The crash occurred just before 9 p.m. Wednesday when American Airlines Flight 5342 from Wichita, Kansas, attempted to land and collided in midair with the Black Hawk helicopter.

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

Decoding the black box is going to give an in-depth insight into what happened moments before the plane crash,” Civil ...

Search continues for those killed in DC air crash as Army helicopter’s black box recovered Investigators are reviewing the helicopter’s flight data recorder along with two recovered earlier ...

The black box is one of the most important safety devices on an aircraft, and it contains two main pieces of equipment—a cockpit voice recorder and a flight data recorder. The former equipment ...

The flight data recorder monitors a plane’s altitude, airspeed and heading, according to the NTSB. Those factors are among at least 88 parameters that newly built planes must monitor.

The black boxes of the plane — the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder — were recovered in the days that followed, one from the rooftop of a building at the crash site on June 13 ...