Pretty much title. I’ve always wondered how those things can withstand massive crashes and explosions and still be reliable to retrieve recordings from.
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Easy, you don’t have anything living inside to save.
It’s just a data storage device, put it in a fireproof box and design the storage device to handle rapid deceleration.
A human is a fragile thing, can be hurt in many ways. A plane crash kills you by taking your internal organs and smashing them around inside of you and damaging them all.
A black box is just a block of metal, everything inside is solidly attached and nothing inside able rattle around and damage. Nothing alive you need to keep that way. Just an inanimate object you have to prevent catching on fire so you make it out of a material with a higher melting point then what the planes materials get up to when they catch fire.
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