Analysis of flight recorder data from the deadly Air India crash two weeks ago was underway in India after investigators successfully retrieved the information from the two black boxes on board.

Airplanes constantly collect and store vital flight data using systems designed to survive even the worst-case scenarios.

An official report on the world’s deadliest aviation accident in a decade, seen by CNN, has answered one key question – but ...

Over the weekend, the Indian Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau released a preliminary report on last month’s crash of Air India flight 171, which killed 260 people, 19 of them on the ground. The ...

Cockpit recordings from the Air India crash reveal pilot confusion after fuel cutoff switches mysteriously flipped during ...

A preliminary report into the Air India disaster has been released based on the data recovered from the plane’s black boxes ...

A focus on the Boeing 787’s fuel switches in a preliminary assessment raised questions about the pilots’ actions, but much is ...

WASHINGTON — Recorders like those aboard missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 store crucial information about why a plane crashed, from the pilot's final words to hundreds of pieces of data ...

The preliminary report from investigators probing the Air India crash that killed 260 people showed that seconds after ...

Flight recorders and black boxes have significantly improved airline safety since their introduction. Many of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regulations are the result of thorough ...

India has yet to decide where the black box recorders from last week's fatal crash of an Air India plane will be analysed, the government said on Thursday.