Airplanes constantly collect and store vital flight data using systems designed to survive even the worst-case scenarios. This video explains how black boxes, flight data recorders, and cockpit ...

Searchers near Hemphill, Tex., have found a flight data recorder, intact and on dry land, that could yield significant clues to what caused the space shuttle Columbia to disintegrate in midair ...

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said Thursday that they recovered flight data recorders, known as black boxes, from the aircraft involved in the deadly mid-air collision near ...

Thecockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder from American Eagle Flight 5342 were found in the Potomac River and taken to NTSB.