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The black box

A few days ago, an Air France Airbus crashed into the Atlantic with 228 passengers, and the black box has not been recovered. In the following video, we will learn the key to the importance of black boxes.

A few days ago, an Airbus from Air France crashed into the Atlantic with 228 passengers. It is not yet known exactly what caused the accident. This useful information is in the black box, and the black box has not been recovered. In the following video, we will learn the key to the importance of black boxes.

The truth is that what most of us know as the ‘black box’ is painted in vivid colors to make it easier to find.

It is located in the rear of the aircraft, where it is most likely to face a collision, and is composed of two devices that serve to clarify the causes of an accident: on the one hand, the flight data collector can store 80 parameters such as the speed, altitude, direction or performance of the engines of the aircraft. On the other hand, the cockpit voice recorder stores sound coming from the microphones and headphones of the pilot and co-pilot, as well as sound alarms received by a microphone located on the roof of the cockpit, etc.

Both devices are protected by a shield made of steel or titanium and an insulating material to prevent them from breaking, crushing, burning or wetting. Thus, the black box can withstand a temperature of 1,100 degrees, a force of gravity of 36,000 times, and as much pressure as a sunken object at 6,000 meters.

The information stored in the black box is only disclosed after an accident; if it were not for this data, the cause of several accidents would not be clarified once.