Every commercial aircraft carries two devices designed to outlast the catastrophic forces of a crash: the cockpit voice ...

There are usually a lot of questions when a plane crashes. And the one thing that can help provide some much-needed context is the black box. Interestingly, an airplane's black box isn't really black, ...

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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today mandated significant upgrades to aircraft cockpit voice and flight data recorders in an effort to help investigators retrieve more and better data from ...