The black box is one of the most important safety devices on an aircraft, and it contains two main pieces of equipment—a cockpit voice recorder and a flight data recorder.The former equipment ...

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

A preliminary investigation report into the deadly Air India crash of June 12 was released on Saturday, revealing details of the final moments of the ill-fated AI171 flight that was bound for London's ...

The second black box from Lion Air flight 610, which crashed in October 2018, ... Early flight data recorders were black, but the devices are now a bright orange color to aid recovery.

With the crashes of AirAsia flight QZ8501 and Malaysia Airlines MH17, along with the disappearance of flight MH370, there is again focus on airline "black boxes". Black boxes are the same colour ...

Nepal plane crash: The boxes could offer vital clues about the crash - Nepal's deadliest aviation accident in over 30 years. The black box is usually two different boxes with different functions.

Ahmedabad Plane Crash: A tragic plane crash at Ahmedabad’s Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport on Thursday afternoon, June 12, 2025, left people devastated and heartbroken. Among 242 on ...

The black box of Air India's Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner plane that crashed on June 12 in Ahmedabad has sustained damage and may have to be sent to the United States to continue the data extraction ...

Has the black box on American Airlines Flight 5342 been located Yes, the NTSB said divers had located the black boxes for AA Flight 5342. Contributing: Reuters , Kinsey Crowley; USA TODAY ...

This means that in an incident where the flight disappears, like what happened with the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, there's no way to retrieve the data collected by the black box.

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 ...