Airplane's black boxes are deliberately designed to survive worst-case scenarios. This is due to their design and materials — ...

How Does it Work? Often painted bright orange, the black box houses flight and cockpit data crucial for crash investigations. It endures extreme impacts, fire, and deep-sea pressure.

An aircraft's black box consists of two separate systems: the Flight Data Recorder (FDR) and the Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR). The FDR logs and stores a wide range of data points for a 24-hour ...

The black boxes emit underwater locator beacon signals, or pings, at depths of up to 20,000 feet (6,000 meters), for up to 30 days before their batteries die.

The race is on to recover the black box from Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370. Without it investigators may never piece together what exactly happened.

Black boxes work by various means. Some are connected via the OBD port of the car and can monitor what is going in the car as a standalone unit. These have accelerometers in them, so can measure brake ...