The black box of an airplane is a safety device meant to help determine what happened in the event of a catastrophic accident, but is it a literal black box? advertisement. SlashGear.

Airplane's black boxes are deliberately designed to survive worst-case scenarios. How do they do this? We look at their design, materials, and testing.

The black box is one of the most important safety devices on an aircraft, and it contains two main pieces of equipment—a cockpit voice recorder and a flight data recorder.The former equipment ...