---
title: "Black box — aviation glossary — OnlyPlanes"
description: "The common name for an aircraft's protected flight recorders."
canonical_url: "https://onlyplanes.ru/en/learn/black-box"
locale: en
meta:
  keywords: "Black box, Black box"
  "og:description": "The common name for an aircraft's protected flight recorders."
  "og:image": "https://onlyplanes.ru/images/aviation/aircraft/boeing-787.webp"
  "og:title": "Black box — aviation glossary"
---

> Index of every page on this site: [llms.txt](https://onlyplanes.ru/llms.txt)

Safety

# Black box

TERM · Safety

At a glance

## Meaning of Black box

The common name for an aircraft's protected flight recorders.

### More about Black box

The recorders are normally brightly coloured to help recovery, despite the familiar name. FDR records flight parameters and CVR records cockpit audio.

Investigators use the recordings alongside other evidence. A recorder is not an automatic explanation of an event: its data still require recovery, validation and interpretation.

```json
{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DefinedTerm","@id":"https://onlyplanes.ru/en/learn/black-box#term","name":"Black box","alternateName":["Black box"],"description":"The common name for an aircraft's protected flight recorders.","inDefinedTermSet":{"@type":"DefinedTermSet","@id":"https://onlyplanes.ru/en/learn#glossary","name":"OnlyPlanes aviation glossary"},"url":"https://onlyplanes.ru/en/learn/black-box"}
```

```json
{"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@id":"https://onlyplanes.ru/en#website","@type":"WebSite","description":"News, stories and rare images from the world of aviation","inLanguage":"en-GB","name":"OnlyPlanes","url":"https://onlyplanes.ru/en","publisher":{"@id":"https://onlyplanes.ru/en#identity"},"translationOfWork":{"@id":"https://onlyplanes.ru/en#website"}},{"@id":"https://onlyplanes.ru/en/learn/black-box#webpage","@type":"WebPage","description":"The common name for an aircraft's protected flight recorders.","name":"Black box — aviation glossary","url":"https://onlyplanes.ru/en/learn/black-box","isPartOf":{"@id":"https://onlyplanes.ru/en#website"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https://onlyplanes.ru/learn/black-box"]}],"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https://onlyplanes.ru/en#logo"}},{"@id":"https://onlyplanes.ru/en#identity","@type":"Organization","name":"OnlyPlanes","url":"https://onlyplanes.ru/en","logo":{"@id":"https://onlyplanes.ru/en#logo"},"sameAs":["https://t.me/legkoenebo"]},{"@id":"https://onlyplanes.ru/en#logo","@type":"ImageObject","caption":"OnlyPlanes","contentUrl":"https://onlyplanes.ru/search-logo.png","inLanguage":"en-GB","url":"https://onlyplanes.ru/search-logo.png"}]}
```

## Sitemap

See the full [sitemap](https://onlyplanes.ru/sitemap.md) for all pages.