WASHINGTON - The National Transportation Safety Board confirmed to USA TODAY on Thursday evening that investigators recovered the cockpit voice recorder and flight ... with the Black Hawk helicopter.

The so-called “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.

"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 ...

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