After I watched a rough cut of "Crash of Flight 111" here at the NOVA offices, a colleague who watched it with me asked, "Why don't they just beam black-box data in real time to ground stations ...

Digital flight data recorders, which record speed, altitude and other critical information, must now also record more data more frequently. The devices, commonly called "black boxes," are orange ...

All aboard both aircraft are feared dead, officials said during Thursday morning news conferences. A black box is a flight data recorder that collects information on communications involving ...

The cockpit voice recorder -- or "black box" -- recovered from the medical jet that crashed in Northeast Philadelphia, killing seven people and injuring several others, never recorded the flight ...