Definition of black box

Device that records human and mechanical activity in aircraft cabins
Black box is a concept of considerable importance at the behest of the navigation since it indicates that device that records both the activity of the instruments and elements that exist in the cabins of planes as also the conversations that occur in this space, mainly between pilot, CoPilot and the rest of the crew. Without a doubt, the design of this safety device framework a milestone in the history of air navigation and its presence is mandatory in all aircraft.
The black box is the main element that rescuers, aviation companies and policy-makers seek no sooner a sinister air, occurs whether a plane is accidentally dropped or it is violently forced to fall, as it can be the case of an attack.

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

And this happens by its functionality, recording everything that happens in the cabin, both with regards to the handling of the plane as the crew talks. Then, captured after the fall of an airplane will allow knowing with certainty that it happened or approaching the knowledge without having to wait until the realization of complex skills on the ship that can take much longer.
In recent weeks, the aviation world and public opinion, awed by the untimely fall of an aircraft of the German company Germanwings, not left to speak of just the black box of the plane, because thanks to the recording that managed to get it is know that actually the fall of the action was perpetrated on purpose by the co-driver a man with psychological disorders, in a stunning and unprecedented suicide Act series, where he was killed and killed the rest of the crew and more a hundred passengers travelling.

Black are called but they are oranges to be easier to find

We must emphasize that its denomination as black box has nothing to do today with a physical characteristic of having precisely that color because the current black boxes are actually orange. Since they began to be used in the middle of the century in effect they were black, however, at the time it was decided to change the color that could be just detectable thanks to a color more shocking than the black. Anyway it did not change its name.