A preliminary finding into last month’s Air India plane crash has suggested the aircraft’s fuel control switches were turned ...

Airplane's black boxes are deliberately designed to survive worst-case scenarios. This is due to their design and materials — all rigorously tested.

Much like football players, airplanes often have black paint under their "eyes," and while the basic idea is similar, there ...

A preliminary finding into last month’s Air India plane crash has suggested the aircraft’s fuel control switches were turned off, starving the engines of fuel and causing a loss of engine ...

The report based its finding on the data recovered from the plane’s black boxes — combined cockpit voice recorders and flight data recorders.

What are black boxes? The cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder are tools that help investigators reconstruct the events that lead up to a plane crash. They’re orange in color to ...

What the ‘black box’ can tell us about plane crashes A preliminary finding into last month’s Air India plane crash has suggested the aircraft’s fuel control switches were turned off ...