Airplanes constantly collect and store vital flight data using systems designed to survive even the worst-case scenarios. This video explains how black boxes, flight data recorders, and cockpit voice ...

WASHINGTON - The National Transportation Safety Board confirmed to USA TODAY on Thursday evening that investigators recovered the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder from the Bombardier ...

Searchers near Hemphill, Tex., have found a flight data recorder, intact and on dry land, that could yield significant clues to what caused the space shuttle Columbia to disintegrate in midair last ...