What is a black box, what can it tell us, and have the data recorders been found from Flight 5342 and the Army's Blackhawk?

All six people aboard the plane − a pilot and copilot, two medical personnel, a patient and her mother − died in the crash ...

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

Investigators found the recording devices, or black boxes, from the American Airlines plane that collided with a helicopter ...

Investigators have recovered the so-called black boxes from an American Airlines Bombardier CRJ-700 regional jet, which ...

Investigators have recovered the black boxes from the American Airlines jet involved in a mid-air collision with a U.S. Army ...

The National Transportation Safety Board confirmed that the flight data recorder from the Sikorsky helicopter in the Jan. 29 plane crash has been found and is now being inspected by authorities in a ...

Advertisement So have both of the airlines' black boxes -- the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder -- according to a late Thursday statement from the National Transportation Safety Board.

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 ...

Here is an explanation of what black boxes are and what they can do: The cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder are tools that help investigators reconstruct the events that lead up ...