Malaysia Airlines flight 370 went missing on March 8, 2014, en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board. The plane has never been found, other than three pieces of confirmed debris and multiple other pieces that could be from the aircraft. That would be really useful in working out exactly what happened to MH370 would be to find the black boxes.
Commercial airlines are all fitted with two flight recorders – or ‘black boxes’ – which contain data vital to working out what went wrong in an accident.
The flight data recorder records information about the aeroplane itself and the cockpit voice recorder stores the sounds from inside the cockpit ... Read even more
