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

An Oklahoma State University alumna was among the 60 passengers killed earlier this week when American Airlines Flight 5342 collided with an Army helicopter near Washington, D.C.

Washington’s National Airport has one of the most congested airspaces in the United States, with as many as 800 landings and departures daily, along with military and government helicopters constantly ...

A timeline of the tragic collision between a commercial plane and a Black Hawk helicopter over the Potomac River, with ...

Radio traffic shows the air traffic controller did confirm with the helicopter that it had the airplane in sight two different times.

As many as 60 passengers and four crew members were aboard American Eagle Flight 5342, and the Black Hawk helicopter was ...

Police boats combed the banks of the Potomac River on Friday, slowly scanning the shoreline in the rain as investigators sought clues into the midair collision that ...

All 67 people on board the American Airlines regional jet and US Army Black Hawk helicopter that collided midair Wednesday ...

PMBlack Hawk black box recovered: NTSBThe Black Hawk's black box -- a combined cockpit voice recorder and digital flight data ...

Figure skaters and coaches returning from the U.S. national championships were aboard the American Airlines flight that ...

The National Transportation Safety Board said the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder from the American Airlines jet that collided with the Black Hawk helicopter have been recovered from ...

Business Insider reviewed official briefings, flight data, and air traffic control audio tapes to piece together what ...