Black boxes: First things first, they are not blackWith Sunday's crash of the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max -8 jetliner that killed 157 passengers, among them 32 Kenyans, the term black box is on every lip. A black box is a misleading term. Professionals call black boxes Flight Data Recorders (FDRs). In other words, the FDR can be separate from the other black box called the Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR). The 'black boxes' help plane crash investigators visualise how the plane was working and how the crew was handling it shortly before the accident.

Source: Standard Digital March 14, 2019 10:41 UTC