Transportation
Black Box Wasn’t Recording Before Philadelphia Medevac Crash
Investigators investigate the scene after a small plane crashed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on Feb. 1.
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The cockpit voice recorder on a medevac plane that crashed in Philadelphia earlier this year contained no data from the fatal flight and likely hadn’t been capturing audio “for several years,” the National Transportation Safety Board said in a preliminary report on Thursday.
The Learjet 55 operated by Jet Rescue Air Ambulance crashed on Jan. 31, killing all six people on board and one person on the ground while injuring several others.