This article explores the role of the brightly colored 'black box' in investigating the recent Air India plane crash in ...

A tragic plane crash at Ahmedabad’s Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport on Thursday afternoon, June 12, 2025, left ...

Other theories include the boxes turning black when they get charred in a crash, the Smithsonian Magazine wrote in 2019. “The truth is much more mundane,” the magazine wrote.

For example, black boxes of an Air France flight that crashed in the Atlantic Ocean in 2009 were found two years later from a depth of more than 10,000 feet, and technicians were able to recover ...

Aircraft 'black boxes' are bright orange rectangular crash-resistant devices that are designed to survive extreme impact and ...

Contrary to its name, black boxes are not black. They are bright yellow or orange. The bright colour is used to assist in ...

The black box is one of the most important safety devices on an aircraft, and it contains two main pieces of equipment—a cockpit voice recorder and a flight data recorder.The former equipment ...

The first thing to know about an airliner’s “black box” is that it’s actually bright orange. There are also two of them: one records mounds of flight data, from the aircraft's speed and ...