Search teams looking for underwater wreckage from AirAsia flight QZ8501 last week located the tail of the aircraft where the black box flight recorders are housed. This is a crucial development in ascertaining what happened in the final moments of the plane before the crash. Without the black boxes, the job of air investigators is made considerably more difficult. When a plane crashes in to the sea – such as with flight QZ8501 and also as is presumed to have been the case in the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 in March 2014 – the advantages of black box recorders … Continue reading Floating black boxes in the spotlight as tail of Air Asia jet #QZ8501 found underwater – an annotated infographic