{"id":4673,"date":"2025-06-13T14:07:06","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T08:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=4673"},"modified":"2025-06-14T10:55:50","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T05:25:50","slug":"what-is-a-black-boxflight-recorder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-a-black-boxflight-recorder\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a Black Box?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Black Box Latest News<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After a Gatwick-bound Air India plane(AI171) crash, the search for the flight&#8217;s black box continues, which is crucial equipment to find out what happened moments before the disaster.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">About Black Box<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a small machine that records <\/span><b>information about an aircraft during its flight.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This bright orange or yellow rectangular box is crafted to withstand explosions, fire, water pressure, and high-speed crashes.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was discovered by Australian <\/span><b>scientist David Warren<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, it is used to discover the cause of a plane crash.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most aircraft are required to be equipped with <\/span><b>two black boxes \u2014 the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) and the flight data recorder (FDR)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2014 that record the information about a flight and help reconstruct the events leading to an aircraft accident.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The CVR <\/span><b>records radio transmissions<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and other sounds in the cockpit, such as conversations between the pilots and engine noises.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>flight data recorder<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> records more than <\/span><b>80 different types of information<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, such as <\/span><b>altitude, airspeed, flight heading, vertical acceleration<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, pitch, roll, autopilot status, etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The recording devices are stored inside a unit that is generally made out of strong substances such as <\/span><b>steel or titanium<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and are also insulated from factors such as extreme heat, cold or wetness.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To protect these black boxes, they are equipped towards the tail end of the aircraft, where the impact of a crash is usually the least.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/india-news\/air-india-ai171-crash-whats-a-black-box-and-why-is-it-important-101749740937755.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">HT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A black box is a small device that records flight data and cockpit audio, helping investigators understand the events leading up to an aircraft incident or crash. 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