When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. "Black box" flight recorders are orange to make them stand out and easy to retrieve in a crash ...

Indonesia's transport safety agency said the black box from a crashed ATR 42-500 in South Sulawesi has been sent to Jakarta ...

Investigators have sent the recovered black box of a crashed ATR 42 in South Sulawesi to Jakarta for analysis.

The mangled tail section of an AirAsia A320 that went down in the Java Sea last month has been lifted to the surface, but the "black boxes" searchers hoped to find in the debris were not immediately ...

There are usually a lot of questions when a plane crashes. And the one thing that can help provide some much-needed context is the black box. Interestingly, an airplane's black box isn't really black, ...

Turkish Transport Minister Abdulkadir Uraloğlu said investigations have shown damage to the flight data recorder (black box) and cockpit voice recorder of Al-Haddad plane that crashed in the Haymana ...

Although the location of the flight data recorder, also known as the black box, had been pinned down, the aircraft's sole ...

In the mid-1950s, while investigating a series of mysterious crashes of the de Havilland Comet — the world's first commercial jet airliner — David Warren thought of a solution that would assist with ...

Modern flight recorders can hold more than 1,000 pieces of information about an aircraft. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In the ...