When an airplane crash occurs, finding answers is suddenly both imperative and intimate. Relatives, survivors, and ...

Data recovery from the flight data recorders aboard Air India flight 171, which tragically crashed on June 12, began this past week.

The aft Enhanced Airborne Flight Recorder (EAFR), or rear black box, was recovered from the roof of the BJ Medical College ...

A preliminary finding into last month’s Air India plane crash has suggested the aircraft’s fuel control switches were turned ...

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 ...

‘Black boxes’ tell of tragedies Recorders: A plane’s flight data and voice recorders are critical to dissecting aviation disasters. To fully understand what happened to TWA Flight 800, their ...

Investigators are examining the tail wreckage of Air India Flight AI-171 for crash clues. Signs of an electric fire were ...

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

Air India plane crash investigators have found both of the Boeing 787's "black boxes," hopefully brining an understanding of ...

Investigators have downloaded flight recorder data from an Air India crash this month that killed 260 people, India's civil aviation ministry said on Thursday, a long-awaited step towards ...

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 ...

For example, black boxes of an Air France flight that crashed in the Atlantic Ocean in 2009 were found two years later from a depth of more than 10,000 feet, and technicians were able to recover ...