When an airplane crash occurs, finding answers is suddenly both imperative and intimate. Relatives, survivors, and investigators alike desire to learn what happened—and why it occurred. In such times, ...

The crash occurred just before 9 p.m. Wednesday when American Airlines Flight 5342 from Wichita, Kansas, attempted to land and collided in midair with the Black Hawk helicopter.

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Investigators have started analyzing data from the black boxes of the Air India Boeing 787 that crashed two weeks ago, killing at least 270 people.

The National Transportation Safety Board has said it has found both recorders from the American Airlines Bombardier CRJ700 plane and is evaluating each. The NTSB also said the Sikorsky H-60 ...

The black box units from the wreckage of Air India Flight AI-171, which crashed 36 seconds after takeoff from Ahmedabad on June 12, killing 274 people, including 33 on the ground, have sustained ...

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 ...

American Airlines Flight 5342 from Wichita, Kansas, was attempting to land when the plane and a Black Hawk helicopter collided.

The flight data recorder monitors a plane’s altitude, airspeed and heading, according to the NTSB. Those factors are among at least 88 parameters that newly built planes must monitor.