Once the cereal box is empty, don’t throw it away. Use your empty cereal box to make a fun airplane craft with your kids. Making a basic airplane out of a cereal box is easy to do. Once you have ...

There are usually a lot of questions when a plane crashes. And the one thing that can help provide some much-needed context is the black box. Interestingly, an airplane's black box isn't really black, ...

Airplane black boxes play a key role in helping the aviation industry figure out why plane crashes occur. Black boxes have helped the FAA improve aviation safety standards since the 1950s. They ...

If you want to establish why a plane crashed, you need to retrieve the black box. This virtually indestructible orange device records all relevant flight data and conversations in the cockpit. For ...

What exactly are a plane's black boxes and how do they work? Aircraft manufacturers equip all their planes with two black boxes - a flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder. A flight data ...

"If the 'black box' flight recorder is never damaged during a plane crash, then why isn't the whole airplane made out of that stuff?" This famous quote from comedian George Carlin may be fun to bring ...

The "black box" on board the devastated Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 was recovered on Tuesday at the crash site, and recently sent to France for further investigation. We hear the words "black box" ...

On the minds of many these days, myself included, is the mystery of Malaysia Airlines lost flight MH370, a Boeing 777 that disappeared early Saturday morning on March 8th shortly after departure from ...