What is a black box, what can it tell us, and have the data recorders been found from Flight 5342 and the Army's Blackhawk?

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Investigators found the recording devices, or black boxes, from the American Airlines plane and Black Hawk helicopter that ...

Some have suggested that it stems from Hussenot's device, because it used film and "ran continuously in a light-tight box, ...

The National Travel Safety Board released images of the black box from the private plane that crashed in Philadelphia on ...

Some have suggested that it stems from Hussenot's device, because it used film and "ran continuously in a light-tight box, ...

The Federal Aviation Administration ( FAA) has banned most helicopter routes near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport ...

The National Transportation Safety Board confirmed to USA TODAY yesterday evening that investigators have recovered the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder from the jet involved in a ...

A black box is a flight data recorder that collects information on communications involving pilots in cockpits and how the aircraft systems perform in-flight. It is designed to be practically ...

Here is an explanation of what black boxes are and what they can do: The cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder are tools that help investigators reconstruct the events that lead up ...

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 ...