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 ...

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, ...

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." There are actually two of these remarkably sturdy devices: the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder. And they're typically orange, not black. Federal investigators ...

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

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

Crews work to find remaining victims as investigators recover black boxes - None of the 67 passengers and crew are believed ...