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?

American Airlines Flight 5342 from Wichita, Kansas, was attempting to land when the plane and a Black Hawk helicopter ...

The young patient and five others killed when their plane crashed into a Philadelphia neighborhood moments after takeoff ...

The National Transportation Safety Board released on Tuesday pictures of the black box recovered from the passenger jet that crashed with an Army Black Hawk, plummeting into the Potomac last week.

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 ...

The black box was discovered eight feet underground at the crash site after a two-day search and is in “decent shape,” ...

The National Transportation Safety Board confirmed that the flight data recorder from the Sikorsky helicopter in the Jan. 29 plane crash has been found and is now being inspected by authorities in a ...

Black boxes, which are actually orange so they can be found after a wreck, include flight data and voice recorders.

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

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

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 ...