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 ...

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 ...

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Black boxes, also known as flight recorders, are crucial to aviation safety.They are designed to withstand extreme conditions and record various types of flight data, as well as cockpit audio.

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 ...

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 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.

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 ...

Despite the name, "black box" devices are painted bright orange to aid in recovery after a crash. The flight data recorder box captures information on the plane including airspeed, altitude ...

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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.