Investigators seeking answers about what caused an Alaska Airlines plane’s near-catastrophic midflight blowout on Jan. 5 are working without a key piece of evidence: audio from the flight’s black box ...

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Military policemen carry the flight data recorder of AirAsia QZ8501 to an awaiting military plane for transport back to Jakarta, at the airbase in Pangkalan Bun, Central Kalimantan January 12, 2015.

If you own a car made this century, chances are it has a type of black-box recorder that documents what happened in the event of a collision. The device, known in the automotive industry as an event ...

The so-called “black box” from the Black Hawk helicopter, which collided with a passenger jet in Washington, D.C., has now been recovered, according to the National Transport Safety Board. Both boxes ...

As part of our 20th anniversary coverage we thought it would be interesting to conduct brand new interviews with some of the artists interviewed in our very first issue way back in December 2001. We ...

In the high-stakes world of aviation, the black box, officially known as the flight recorder, is recognized as an important device for flight safety and accountability. Black boxes have often been ...

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A black box recorder from the China Eastern Airlines plane that crashed this week was found severely damaged at the crash site in southern China, an aviation official said Wednesday. The recovered box ...

The British dark pop trio Black Box Recorder are calling it quits. Yesterday, a post appeared on the trio's MySpace blog (and was sent in a press release) with the title "BLACK BOX RECORDER: FINAL ...