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.

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

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 first of the National Transportation Safety Board’s three days of investigative hearings is underway to help determine ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(CNN) - Both black boxes have been recovered from the American Airlines jet involved in Wednesday night’s midair collision with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter. The flight recorders are being ...

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

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.