We’re all familiar with the “Black Box” used on commercial aircraft, the flight data recorder which captures the minutia of each and every flight on the off-chance that it’s needed in the ...

Plus, there’s often not one black box, but two! There’s a Flight Data Recorder (FDR), charged with recording aircraft telemetry, and a Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR), designed to record what’s ...

Babcock explained the uses for the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder, which provides information on airspeed, altitude and GPS/ “(The voice recorder is) recording audio and ...

Former NTSB Chairman Jim Hall called the finding about the cockpit recording “disturbing" because “that and the whole flight data recorder are important to find out what went wrong.” ...

The flight data recorder, which tracks aircraft parameters such as altitude and airspeed among others, is one of the two “black-boxes” that Korean investigators retrieved from the wreckage of ...