Concept in Definition ABC

Device that records human and mechanical activity in aircraft cockpits

The black box is a concept of considerable importance at the request of air navigation since it designates the device that records both the activity of the instruments and elements that exist in the cockpits of the airplanes as well as the conversations that take place in that space, mainly between the pilot, copilot and the rest of the crew members. Without a doubt, the design of this device safety mark a milestone in the history of air navigation and its presence is mandatory on all aircraft.

The black box is the main element that rescuers, aviation companies and political authorities look for as soon as an air accident occurs, whether an accident is accidentally dropped. airplane or he is forced violently to fall, as may be the case of an attack.

It allows to know what happened on the plane before an accident

And this happens because of its functionality, it records everything that happens in the cockpit, both with regard to the handling of the plane and the conversations of the crew. Then, captured after the fall of a plane, it will allow us to know for sure what happened or to approach the knowledge of it without having to wait until the

realization of complex expertise on the ship that can take much longer.

In recent weeks, the world of aviation and public opinion, astonished by the untimely fall of an aircraft of the German company Germanwings, they did not stop talking about precisely the black box of the plane, because thanks to the recording that was obtained of it, it was possible to know that the fall of the action was actually perpetrated to purpose by the co-pilot, a man with series disorders psychological, in a shocking and unprecedented suicidal act, in which the rest of the crew and more than one hundred passengers who were traveling were killed and killed.

They are called black but they are orange to be easier to find

We must emphasize that its name as Black Box today does not have to do with a characteristic physical to have exactly that color because in reality the current black boxes are orange. Since they began to be used in the middle of the last century, they were indeed black, however, at the time they were decided to change the color so that they could be easily detectable thanks to a color more shocking than the black. In any case, this did not change its name.

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