Sources: CNN
Indonesian divers retrieve the flight data recorder from the ocean near Karawang, Indonesia, where the plane had crashed three days prior. 2018-11-1
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada concludes pilot disorientation was the most likely cause of a plane crash that killed former Premier of Alberta Jim Prentice and three others. The TSB asks Transport Canada to mandate cockpit voice recorders and flight data recorders on all commercial and private business aircraft. 2018-04-26
Emergency teams comb snowy fields outside Moscow Monday for debris from a crashed Russian airliner and the remains of the 71 people who died. Transport Minister Maksim Sokolov says that emergency teams have already found the plane's flight data recorder, which will help them determine the crash's cause, but notes that the search for the victims' remains will take at least a week. 2018-02-12
Data from the flight data recorder reveals that the plane was deliberately accelerated before crashing into the French Alps. 2015-04-3
Germanwings' owner Lufthansa officially acknowledges that it knew there were mental health issues with Andreas Lubitz before the crash. 2015-03-31
In imitation of current U.S. policy, Lufthansa, together with other German airlines announce plans to mandate that two people (either two pilots or a pilot and a flight attendant) must be inside the cockpit at all times. 2015-03-27
A Germanwings flight crashes en route from Barcelona, Spain, to Düsseldorf, Germany, in a mountainous region of the Alps near Digne-les-Bains in Southern France leaving 150 dead. Rescue workers recover the damaged, but still usable, cockpit voice recorder. 2015-03-24
Divers retrieve the flight data recorder from the crashed jet. 2015-01-11
The Memory Unit of the Flight Data Recorder from Air France 447 is recovered from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, nearly two years after the jet crashed. 2011-05-1
The flight data recorder from Henan Airlines Flight 8387 is found. 2010-08-25