While authorities focus on the cause of the US's deadliest aviation disaster since 2001, families are mourning their loved ...

Investigators confirmed they have recovered a cockpit voice recorder and a flight-data recorder from American Eagle Flight ...

NTSB officials say recorders from both aircraft have been recovered in good condition as the investigation into the crash ...

A commercial plane with 60 passengers and four crew members on board collided with a military helicopter with a crew of three ...

It's one of the most important pieces of forensic evidence following a plane crash: The so-called “black box." There are ...

The National Transportation Safety Board says it has recovered a cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder from the ...

Investigators found the recording devices, or black boxes, from the American Airlines plane and Black Hawk helicopter that ...

U.S. authorities said on Thursday it was not yet clear why a regional jet and a U.S. Army helicopter collided at a Washington ...

Police boats combed the banks of the Potomac River on Friday, moving slowly under rainy skies and scanning the shoreline as ...

The NTSB says the black box data recorder has been recovered from the military helicopter involved in the fatal crash in ...

Black boxes house critical flight data regarding aircraft and are designed to be resilient, with their retrieval typically a high priority after incidents.

The black boxes are the nickname for the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder that record events during a flight.