NBC News’ Zinhle Essamuah takes a look at how black boxes work and who invented them in light of the recent mid-air collision ...

The black boxes are the nickname for the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder that record events during a flight.

Two black boxes have been recovered from the Potomac River, according to officials.Crews have been on scene all Thursday in ...

Black box recovered from Black Hawk helicopter as 41 bodies pulled from Potomac river - Questions grow about air safety in ...

Investigators have recovered the flight recorders—also known as black boxes—from both the commercial jet and the military ...

One black box has been recovered from the Potomac River, according to officials.Crews have been on scene all Thursday in ...

The crash occurred on Wednesday night, involving a CRJ700 regional jet from Kansas and a Sikorsky H-60 military helicopter.

The black boxes of the American Airlines plane submerged in the Potomac River from Wednesday’s crash with a military helicopter have been recovered, the National Transportation Safety Board said ...

The U.S. Army today identified the third person on board the Black Hawk helicopter that collided with a passenger jet over the Potomac River Wednesday as Capt. Rebecca M. Lobach, of Durham ...

Recovery operations are underway after an American Airlines flight and an Army helicopter collided and crashed into the ...

Investigators on Thursday recovered the black boxes of a passenger plane that crashed into Washington DC’s Potomac River after it collided midair with a military helicopter, with all 67 on board ...

Several victims of a mid-air crash between an American Airlines flight and a military helicopter Wednesday night were ...