The black box of an airplane is a safety device meant to help determine what happened in the event of a catastrophic accident ...

New details have been revealed about the tourist helicopter that crashed in New York City on April 10, killing all six people onboard — including that it did not have a black box — according to the ...

"Black box" flight recorders are orange to make them stand out and easy to retrieve in a crash scene. | Credit: marko_n via Getty Images In the mid-1950s, while investigating a series of ...

The French navy has located the black box flight recorders from the Air France (EPA:AF) jet which plunged into the Atlantic killing 228 people last summer. However, officials said there was still ...

Official reported that the helicopter was missing a flight recorder, commonly known as ‘Black box’, as well. On Thursday, the Bell 206 L-4 helicopter was on the back half of a sightseeing trip ...

‘Black boxes’ weren’t on doomed helicopter flights, as they’re not required More than a dozen people have died in US helicopter tour accidents since 2018. But flight recorders that may ...

India has taken a significant step forward in aviation safety with the inauguration of the Digital Flight Data Recorder and ...

Rachel Pannett is a former deputy bureau chief of The Wall Street Journal's Sydney bureau.