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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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