What is a black box, what can it tell us, and have the data recorders been found from Flight 5342 and the Army's Blackhawk?

An American Airlines regional jet went down in the Potomac River near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

Sixty-seven people died in a collision between a Bombardier CRJ700 regional jet operated by PSA Airlines and a military Black ...

Investigators found the recording devices, or black boxes, from the American Airlines plane and Black Hawk helicopter that ...

Some have suggested that it stems from Hussenot's device, because it used film and "ran continuously in a light-tight box, ...

A commercial plane with 60 passengers and four crew members on board collided with a military helicopter with a crew of three ...

The National Transportation Safety Board released photos of the charred black box from the air ambulance crash that occurred ...

NTSB investigators have recovered the engines and cockpit voice recorder (CVR) of the Learjet 55 that crashed on Jan. 31 in ...

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has released more photos after an American Airlines plane and Black Hawk ...

U.S. authorities said on Thursday it was not yet clear why a regional jet and a U.S. Army helicopter collided at a Washington ...

On Wednesday night, a regional American Airlines passenger jet and a ... will be able to extract data from all three black boxes. DC PLANE CRASH: A timeline of the deadly collision 41 bodies ...

An update on the aftermath of the Jan. 29 plane crash was shared by officials on Friday, Jan. 31 Escher Walcott is a Writer/Reporter at PEOPLE, covering stories in Entertainment, Style, Human ...