Description: How does the black box survive airplane crashes It's not magic just some of the toughest engineering on the planet Here's what you need to know Every commercial jet carries a black box actually 2 devices: the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder Despite the name they're painted bright orange so investigators can spot them in wreckage But what makes them nearly indestructible Inside you'll find crash-protected memory chips wrapped in layers of thermal insulation all sealed inside a steel or titanium shell These boxes are built to survive 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit for an hour 20,000 feet of ocean pressure and impacts up to 3,400 Gs They're usually tucked in the tail the most crash-survivable part of the plane And if a plane goes down over water a pinger sends out a 37.5-kilohertz signal for up to 30 days helping search teams locate it But even these marvels have limits Deep ocean crashes intense fires or a dead locator battery can mean a black box is never found That's why experts are pushing for the next leap: cockpit video recorders and real-time data streaming so vital evidence can't be lost or destroyed If you care about safer skies support smarter modern flight recorders The future of aviation safety depends on it.