NBC News’ Zinhle Essamuah takes a look at how black boxes work and who invented them in light of the recent mid-air collision ...

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

Crews working at the site of the deadliest aviation disaster in a generation have recovered all 67 victims of the collision ...

Investigators have recovered the flight recorders—also known as black boxes—from both the commercial jet and the military ...

The so-called “black box” is one of the most important pieces of forensic evidence following a plane crash. There are ...

Recovery operations are underway after an American Airlines flight and an Army helicopter collided and crashed into the ...

An American Airlines plane with 64 people on board collided with an Army helicopter over Washington, D.C., and crashed into ...

After the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) recovered the black boxes from the downed American Airlines passenger ...

The pieces of wreckage recovered Tuesday were lifted by a crane and placed onto a barge with other parts recovered from the ...

Two black boxes have been recovered from the Potomac River, according to officials.Crews have been on scene all Thursday in ...

Investigators have announced that the black box from the Army Black Hawk helicopter that collided with a commercial jetliner ...