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Flight recorders have been found at the crash site of a passenger plane in eastern Russia a day after the deadly accident, ...

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Airplanes constantly collect and store vital flight data using systems designed to survive even the worst-case scenarios. This video explains how black boxes, flight data recorders, and cockpit voice ...

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, still missing somewhere in the Indian Ocean, could force the development of the next generation of flight-data recorders, which are often called “black boxes.” ...

Or a fire could knock them out, as happened five minutes before Swissair Flight 111 crashed off the coast of Nova Scotia in 1998. Investigators are always looking for clues from the recorders.

On his flight to London in 1958 to demonstrate his invention, one of the engines of the airplane failed. He turned on his recorder and made observations from his passenger seat.

Modern cockpit voice recorders (CVRs) with solid-state memory boards store up to two hours of audio captured by microphones, while a plane's flight data recorder (FDR) preserves 25 hours of ...

A preliminary report about the Air India jetliner that crashed in June did not say a broken cockpit seat was to blame, ...

A version of this article appears in print on March 24, 2022, Section A, Page 6 of the New York edition with the headline: China Finds Flight Recorder as Questions About Crash Mount.