How it Works Black Box Aircraft

"Although the so-called black box but the box is not really black but orange. It is intended to facilitate the search when the plane crashed. "- Wikipedia.

Well, for those who had been thought that the black box is black, was wrong. But why is it called a black box? Perhaps, because the former first black, or indeed from the first there, it was orange. It could be because of the orange, but since the plane crash, the color changed to black.

Black Box

Actually, the connotation of a black box or the tragedy here is that the mystery is connoted with black. Black box (black box) on an airplane pilot serves to record the activities of both conversations - cockpit voice recorder (CVR), and motion-aircraft flight data recorder (FDR).
Data from the FDR and CVR are stored in the memory boards in the crash-survivable memory unit (CSMU) - black shield-shaped cylindrical box1memory. With this tool more than 700 kinds of parameter data can be stored. Crash Survivable Memory Unit (CSMU) contains a memory board is surrounded by thermal insulation and steel armor that can withstand the impact of the crash a thousand times the force of gravity and survive in the sea at a depth of 14000-20000 feet (4.270 m-6096 m).
All data collected by sensors in the sensor plane is sent to the flight-data acquisition unit (FDAU) located in the nose of the aircraft. FDAU as an intermediary before the data is stored in a black box.

How it Works Black Box
That is why every plane crash, this is a black box in the search by the investigator, because recent data before the crash captured in this black box. Usually the data available on the black box (black box) is kept secret by the investigators for various reasons.