A commercial plane with 60 passengers and four crew members on board collided with a military helicopter with a crew of three near Washington, D.C., on Wednesday night.

Forty-one bodies had been pulled from the Potomac River as of Friday afternoon, including 28 that had been positively identified.

Black boxes house critical flight data regarding aircraft and are designed to be resilient, with their retrieval typically a high priority after incidents.

NTSB officials say recorders from both aircraft have been recovered in good condition as the investigation into the crash ...

Investigators confirmed they have recovered a cockpit voice recorder and a flight-data recorder from American Eagle Flight ...

Some have suggested that it stems from Hussenot's device because it used film and “ran continuously in a light-tight box, hence the name ‘black box,'” according to Airbus, which noted that orange was ...

Investigators have announced that the black box from the Army Black Hawk helicopter that collided with a commercial jetliner ...