NBC News’ Zinhle Essamuah takes a look at how black boxes work and who invented them in light of the recent mid-air collision ...

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?

Investigators found the recording devices, or black boxes, from the American Airlines plane that collided with a helicopter ...

For example, black boxes of an Air France flight that crashed in the Atlantic Ocean in 2009 were found two years later from a depth of more than 10,000 feet, and technicians were able to recover ...

Investigators have recovered the so-called black boxes from an American Airlines Bombardier CRJ-700 regional jet, which collided with a U.S. Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter and crashed into the ...

The fatal collision between a passenger plane and a military helicopter is expected to have killed all 67 involved.

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