The flight data and voice recorders, known as black boxes, have been recovered after the midair collision of a passenger jet and an Army helicopter in the Washington, DC, area, the National ...

The NTSB says the black box data recorder has been recovered from the military helicopter involved in the fatal crash in ...

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.