The first thing to know about an airliner’s “black box” is that it’s actually bright orange. There are also two of them: one records mounds of flight data, from the aircraft's speed and ...

Black boxes have been recovered from the American Airlines plane and Black Hawk helicopter that collided Wednesday night near D.C. and salvage operations are set to begin on Saturday, the National ...

After I watched a rough cut of "Crash of Flight 111" here at the NOVA offices, a colleague who watched it with me asked, "Why don't they just beam black-box data in real time to ground stations ...