It's one of the most important pieces of forensic evidence following a plane crash: The so-called “black box."There are actually two of these remarkably sturdy devices: the cockpit voice recorder and ...

A preliminary report 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 thrust ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As the recovery operation continued after a commercial airliner collided with an Army helicopter near the nation's capital this ...

Most people know that electronic flight data recorders -- also known as "black boxes" -- are a critical source of information to aircraft crash investigators. Yet most motorists don't realize that if ...

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, ...

It's one of the most important pieces of forensic evidence following a plane crash: The so-called “black box." There are actually two of these remarkably sturdy devices: the cockpit voice recorder and ...