Airplane's black boxes are deliberately designed to survive worst-case scenarios. How do they do this? We look at their design, materials, and testing.

A preliminary finding into last month’s Air India plane crash has suggested the aircraft’s fuel control switches were turned off, starving the engines of fuel and causing a loss of engine ...

The Air India flight crash report said that both engines lost thrust shortly after takeoff because the aircraft’s fuel control switches had been turned off.

The Cockpit Voice Recorder, or CVR, of the Air India plane that crashed in Ahmedabad last week - losing thrust 36 seconds after take-off and slamming into buildings near the airport, killing 274 ...

Emergency crews have recovered the flight recorder of an Antonov An-24 passenger plane that crashed in Russia’s Far East, ...

American Airlines Flight 5342 from Wichita, Kansas, was attempting to land when the plane and a Black Hawk helicopter collided. 'Black box' flight data recorder recovered in DC plane crash: Recap ...

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

Investigators have started analyzing data from the black boxes of the Air India Boeing 787 that crashed two weeks ago, killing at least 270 people.

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

A flight recorder believed to have belonged to the Russian plane carrying 92 people that crashed into the Black Sea has reportedly been found. Skip to content NOWCAST 40/29 News Sunrise ...

The Ministry of Civil Aviation has refuted claims that the black boxes recovered from the tragic Air India Flight 171 crash ...

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.