A preliminary finding into last month's Air India plane crash has suggested the aircraft's fuel control switches were turned ...

Airplane's black boxes are deliberately designed to survive worst-case scenarios. This is due to their design and materials — ...

Airplanes constantly collect and store vital flight data using systems designed to survive even the worst-case scenarios.

What are black boxes? Black boxes – cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder – are tools that help investigators reconstruct the events that lead up to a plane crash.

Black boxes from Air India Flight AI171 are being analysed to determine the cause of the crash, possibly involving engine or control issues.

What is a black box? A black box is a small machine that records all information about an aircraft during its flight. It helps investigators understand and investigate an aeroplane mishap. Despite ...

Investigators have been combing through the wreckage, and analyzing the plane's "black box" flight recorders, as they try to establish what brought down Flight AI171.

THE black box recovered from the doomed Air India flight could be sent to the US for analysis after being rescued from a blazing 1,000 degree inferno.

The Digital Flight Data Recorder (DFDR) and Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) collectively known as the black box, sustained significant damage in the crash, making local recovery efforts unviable.

Analysis of flight recorder data from the deadly Air India crash two weeks ago was underway in India after investigators successfully retrieved the information from the two black boxes on board.