The so-called “black box” is one of the most important pieces of forensic evidence following a plane crash. There are ...

Latest news and live updates after an American Airline jet collided with a Black Hawk helicopter over the Potomac River.

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

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

A pair of black boxes has been recovered from the American Airlines jet involved in a mid-air collision with a military ...

Black boxes recovered after a jet and Army helicopter collided near DC; 14 still missing as NTSB investigates the deadly ...

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

Sixty passengers and four crew members from the plane and three Black Hawk helicopter personnel are feared dead as a recovery ...

For the latest updates on victim recovery efforts, please read USA TODAY's live coverage of the plane crash investigation on ...

An American Airlines regional jet went down in the Potomac River near Washington, D.C.'s Ronald Reagan Washington National ...

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?

Crews are still searching the Potomac River for the dead from Wednesday's midair crash between an American Airlines plane and ...