Crew Recording on Doomed Amazon Jet Reflect ‘Loss of Control’
- NTSB issues press release on Feb. 23 fatal cargo plane crash
- Plane carrying Amazon packages had poor quality voice recorder
Photographer: Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via AP Photo
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Recorded conversations by pilots on a cargo jet carrying packages for Amazon.com Inc. that crashed last month near Houston reveal they began losing control of the aircraft about 18 seconds before it slammed into a shallow bay, investigators said Tuesday.
The communications captured on the cockpit sound recorder were “consistent with a loss of control of the aircraft,” according to a press release issued by the National Transportation Safety Board. The NTSB recovered the crash-proof cockpit recorder and another black box storing flight data in recent days and brought them to its lab in Washington for analysis.