Updated Jan 11, 2021 | 14:26 IST
The Black Box helps investigators study the causes of crashes and suggest changes in flight engineering and policies. But the history of how a Black Box was invented is a juicy tale of research and enterprise. The Black Box is a cockpit voice recorder and a flight data recorder | Photo Credit: iStock Images
Key Highlights
The Black Box is not black and it is not one box. Here are juicy details about the orange-coloured device.
If you love reading about interesting facts in history that led to major inventions and progress of mankind, you must read this.
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This is a c. 1957 Chanrai s Men s Shop and British Overseas Airways Corporation (B.O.A.C.) map of Singapore. Streets throughout the city are illustrated, although only major streets and avenues are labeled. The Central Fire Station, Fort Canning, King George Park, the Raffles Hotel, and the Clyde Terrace Market are all noted. A further twenty-nine locations are identified numerically and correspond to a table along the right border.
Dating the Map with AircraftAs this map is undated, but the verso advertisements allow us to assign an approximate date. The B.O.A.C. advertisement includes profiles of three aircraft. The top aircraft, the Boeing Stratocruiser, was part of B.O.A.C. s fleet until 1959. The second aircraft, the Lockheed Constellation, also retired from B.O.A.C. s fleet in 1959. The third aircraft is the newest airplane in B.O.A.C. s fleet, the Douglas DC-7. B.O.A.C. introduced the DC-7 on their North Atlantic routes in January 1957, making
Her husband always called her my Margaret , but it was not in order to distinguish her from the other Margaret in his life.
Instead, there was a profound tenderness in his use of the possessive. It was a mark of how, throughout their 64-year marriage, she had always been by far the most important person in his life.
If anyone had ever doubted the depth of the love and devotion that Norman Tebbit gave to his wife Margaret, they had only to see him pushing her wheelchair any time in the past 36 years, smiling determinedly in the face of their shared tragedy, refusing to wince from his own permanent pain, challenging the world to dare pity them.
Terrorism and War-Related Airplane Crashes Fast Facts
Here’s a selected list of commercial airplane crashes caused by military acts or by terrorism.
June 14, 1940 – Soviet bombers shoot down the Kaleva, a Finnish commercial plane traveling from Estonia to Finland, killing all nine on board. One passenger was Henry W. Antheil Jr., an American diplomat who was carrying diplomatic pouches from US legations in Estonia and Latvia.
March 3, 1942 – Japanese aircraft shoot down a KNILM flight on its way to Broome, Australia. The plane crash-lands on the beach at Carnot Bay. Four people die.
June 1, 1943 – British actor Leslie Howard is among 17 killed when German fighters shoot down a British Overseas Airways Corporation flight over the Bay of Biscay.