That’s a Hot Mic A flight data recorder (left) and a cockpit voice recorder (right). Some later designs combine the two into a single unit. Credit: YSSYguy, CC BY-SA-3.0 ...

The deadly Air India crash has renewed a decades-old debate in the aviation industry over installing video cameras to monitor airline pilot actions.

Families of the victims of June's deadly Air India crash demanded the immediate release of the aircraft's two flight ...

Families of victims of June’s deadly Air India crash demanded on Friday (Aug 8) the immediate release of the aircraft’s two ...

Java Flight Recorder further minimizes the harm to performance through the tabulation of data that is already maintained by the JVM, rather than implementing new mechanisms that track performance. For ...

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 ...

Russian investigators have disclosed that flight-data recordings from an Angara Airlines Antonov An-24 were destroyed by fire ...

On his flight to London in 1958 to demonstrate his invention, one of the engines of the airplane failed. He turned on his recorder and made observations from his passenger seat.

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 ...

March 19, 2003 -- NASA investigators today recovered the flight recorder of the space shuttle Columbia, giving them new hope that they may be able to determine what caused the ship's breakup.