Investigators seeking answers about what caused an Alaska Airlines plane’s near-catastrophic midflight blowout on Jan. 5 are working without a key piece of evidence: audio from the flight’s black box ...

Richard Upchurch began his Brooklyn-based sound recorder business by making a handcrafted audio device for his nephew. A few more were requested by his teachers and then he started selling them online ...

TiVo Inc. and Comcast Corp. on Monday unveiled the long-awaited fruits of an agreement to work together: A cable box that runs TiVo's digital-video-recorder software. The collaboration between the ...

To investigators struggling to reconstruct what happened to TWA Flight 800, nothing is more critical than retrieving the two shoe box-size containers that cradle the flight data and cockpit voice ...

A black box recorder from the China Eastern Airlines plane that crashed this week was found severely damaged at the crash site in southern China, an aviation official said Wednesday. The recovered box ...

Most people know that electronic flight data recorders -- also known as "black boxes" -- are a critical source of information to aircraft crash investigators. Yet most motorists don't realize that if ...

Australia is looking into equipping soldiers with a personal "black box" that would act as a combination data recorder and emergency beacon. Start-up telecommunications company Myriota and wearable ...

Following the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 plane crash that killed all 157 people aboard, on Monday investigators announced they had recovered the electronic flight data recorders from the ...

When a plane goes down, one of the first things safety investigators do is search for its black box recorder, which can provide a valuable starting point for determining what went wrong. It's an ...

If you own a car made this century, chances are it has a type of black-box recorder that documents what happened in the event of a collision. The device, known in the automotive industry as an event ...