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 ...

If you want to establish why a plane crashed, you need to retrieve the black box. This virtually indestructible orange device ...

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.

The second black box from Lion Air flight 610, which crashed in October 2018, was recovered in January 2019. Azwar Ipank/AFP/Getty Images ...

This is a black box. If a plane goes down in the middle of the ocean the crucial data about the last moments of the flight go with it. There’s a better way to do this ...

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 ...

DC plane crash latest updates: Flight recorder 'black box' from army Black Hawk helicopter recovered from wreckage - None of the 67 passengers and crew are believed to have survived ...

The story of "Black Box" flight recorder and its Australian inventor, Dr David Warren, is no exception. The "Black Box" is a device that records in-flight conversations and data.

Flight recorders or 'black boxes', have been used in investigations of aviation catastrophes since the mid-20th century. They have developed considerably over the years. We take a look back at ...

With one of the black boxes from the China Eastern Airlines crash reportedly found, here's exactly what the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder do on airliners.

Other cases where recorders were retrieved from the ocean include TWA Flight 800 in 1996, EgyptAir Flight 990 in 1999 and Alaska Airlines Flight 261 in 2000.