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

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

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

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

NTSB officials say the flight data and cockpit voice recorders have been recovered a day after a fatal plane crash over the ...

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 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 ...

(AP video: Mike Pesoli, Nathan Ellgren) A member of a dive team and a Coast Guard vessel with a crane are pictured as they ...

The pieces of wreckage recovered Tuesday were lifted by a crane and placed onto a barge with other parts recovered from the ...

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 ...

Washington, Jan 30 (EFE).- 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 ...