Black box' flight data recorder recovered in DC plane crash The National Transportation Safety Board confirmed to USA TODAY that investigators recovered the cockpit voice recorder and flight data ...

"We can't forget about Ham." The National Transportation Safety Board confirmed to USA TODAY that investigators recovered the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder from the passenger ...

Aircraft technology that has been crucial to making big midair collisions exceptionally rare in the U.S. was limited in helping avoid Wednesday’s deadly collision between a commercial jetliner ...

There are actually two of these remarkably sturdy devices: the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder. And they’re typically orange, not black. Federal investigators on Friday ...

A flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder were pulled from the Potomac River in Washington DC on Thursday, hours after the plane collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter. Authorities ...