What is the color of the black box in a commercial airplane?

Yank	Bright Orange - so it is easy for rescuers to locate... Jun 08 03, 4:39 PM

Kainantu

Although they are called 'black boxes,' aviation recorders are actually painted bright orange. This distinct color, along with the strips of reflective tape attached to the recorders' exteriors, help investigators locate the black boxes following an accident. These are especially helpful when a plane lands in the water. Lots of info here: http://travel.howstuffworks.com/black-box5.htm Jun 09 03, 9:46 AM

BelperJon

They are normally bright orange. They were named after a Dr Black who invented them. Jul 02 03, 7:39 AM

McGruff

Who Invented the Black Box? The Black Box was first invented by a young Australian scientist named Dr. David Warren. While Warren was working at the Aeronautical Research Laboratory in Melbourne in the mid-1950s he was involved in the accident investigation surrounding the mysterious crash of the world’s first jet-powered commercial aircraft, the Comet. Realising that it would have been useful for investigators if there had been a recording of what had happened on the plane just before the crash, he got to work on a basic flight data recorder. The first demonstration unit was produced in 1957, but it was not until 1960, after an unexplained plane crash in Queensland, that Australia became the first country in the world to make the Black Box mandatory for all commercial aircraft. http://www.ngcafrica.co.za/programmes/air-crash-investigation/black-box/who-invented-the-black-box Feb 21 09, 11:39 PM