The NTSB is investigating the cause of a near-catastrophic midflight blowout aboard an Alaska Airlines flight on Friday, but the flight’s black box voice recording was erased before it could be ...

Black boxes, also known as flight recorders , are crucial to aviation safety. They are designed to withstand extreme conditions and record various types of flight data, as well as cockpit audio .

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.

David Warren, 85, an Australian scientist who invented the flight data recorder, the so-called "black box" that has helped solve airplane crashes and has improved airline safety around the world ...

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 ...

Then there are those who appear convinced that it couldn’t have been the pilots, and believe that something was wrong with ...

The "black boxes" record everything that happens in the cockpit, including the pilots' voices, as well as engine noises, and often are used to investigate what happened in the moments before a crash.

One of the two black box flight recorders from the EgyptAir plane that plunged into the Mediterranean last month has been repaired, Egypt’s investigation commission said Tuesday, prompting hopes ...

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.