Voice recorder from fatal Florida jet crash found, NTSB says
Investigators sifting through the wreckage of the Learjet plane that nose-dived in South Florida on Nov. 1 have recovered the aircraft’s cockpit voice recorder (CVR), a potentially critical piece in determining what caused the crash that killed all nine people aboard . "The CVR was located at the site of initial impact," the National Transportation Safety Board said in a statement on X late Monday, Nov. 9, announcing the finding. "The CVR is being evaluated in the NTSB Vehicle Recorders Laboratory in Washington, D.C. The excavation work at the impact site has been completed." Investigators hope the newly discovered piece will contain communications between the pilots and air-traffic controllers before the jet's rapid descent, which began at about 12:45 p.m. on Nov. 1. Discovery of the piece comes nearly 10 days after the jet bound from Austin, Texas, for the Bahamas went down amid heavy rain and thunderstorms . The plane nose-dived at about 300 mph and exploded into a fireball upon a busy Palm Beach County roadway minutes later. In a haunting audio recording between the cockpit and air traffic controllers, the flight crew can be heard describing the plane hurtling toward the ground out of control. NTSB Chair
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