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WASHINGTON - The National Transportation Safety Board confirmed to USA TODAY on Thursday evening that investigators recovered the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder from the Bombardier ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Investigators have downloaded data from one of the black box flight recorders on EgyptAir Flight MS804 and are preparing to analyze it, bringing them closer discovering what caused ...

There are usually a lot of questions when a plane crashes. And the one thing that can help provide some much-needed context is the black box. Interestingly, an airplane's black box isn't really black, ...

A flight recorder believed to have belonged to the Russian plane carrying 92 people that crashed into the Black Sea has reportedly been found. The Associated Press reported Tuesday that the defense ...

In the mid-1950s, while investigating a series of mysterious crashes of the de Havilland Comet — the world's first commercial jet airliner — David Warren thought of a solution that would assist with ...

On Friday’s episode of The Excerpt podcast: USA TODAY Aviation Reporter Zach Wichter takes a look at what's next for the investigation into this week's deadly plane and helicopter collision. We pay ...

Editor's note: This page reflects news of the plane crash near DC on Thursday, Jan. 30. For the latest updates on victim recovery efforts, please read USA TODAY's live coverage of the plane crash ...