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 ...

Some have suggested that it stems from Hussenot's device, because it used film and "ran continuously in a light-tight box, ...

Investigators have already recovered the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder of the American Airlines plane that ...

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

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

The crash occurred on Wednesday night, involving a CRJ700 regional jet from Kansas and a Sikorsky H-60 military helicopter.

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

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