Navy divers have recovered the cockpit voice recorder of a Lion Air jet that crashed into the Java Sea in October, Indonesian officials said Monday, in a possible boost to the investigation into why ...

Officials said the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder are now headed to the NTSB laboratory in Washington, D.C.

Indonesian divers on Tuesday retrieved the cockpit voice recorder from the wreckage of an AirAsia plane that crashed into the Java Sea as the airline’s boss vowed to overcome the “toughest times” he ...

NSIB has recovered and secured the CVR and FDR from the Bombardier Challenger CL-601 aircraft, registration N989BC, operated ...

Federal investigators say they have not identified a cause for the fatal Laredo jet crash as they continue reviewing flight recorders, witness accounts and physical evidence.

Flight data recorders and cockpit voice recorders are nearly indestructible. The recorders are widely referred to as the "black box" and are crucial to aviation accident investigations. Future ...

New technology allowing audio of plane crashes to be extracted from still images has prompted the National Transportation Safety Board to take a rare step of pausing the public release of nearly all ...

The FAA has finalized a rule extending the required cockpit voice recorder (CVR) retention period from two hours to 25 hours for newly manufactured aircraft. This change is intended to preserve ...