Voice Recorder of Plane that Crashed Off Nantucket Recovered
The recovered recorder and cockpit section will be examined in Ottawa as investigators continue to probe the cause of the aircraft’s disappearance.
- On Monday, the Transportation Safety Board of Canada recovered the cockpit voice recorder and upper cockpit section of the Latitude Air Ambulance that crashed off Nantucket, Massachusetts, killing all six people on board.
- The Gulfstream G100 departed Bermuda on October 3 for Boston when the crew reported "electrical difficulties" around 2 a.m. before Federal Aviation Administration controllers lost contact with the aircraft.
- Searchers located a "debris field" in 80 to 90 feet of water off Nantucket; crews scoured more than 4,400 miles over 66 hours before the U.S. Coast Guard suspended the search Sunday.
- The TSB, working with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Canadian Coast Guard, is transporting recovered items to their engineering laboratory in Ottawa for forensic examination.
- Air traffic audio indicates the plane may have been "coming in blind" during a storm before it vanished, and investigators continue analyzing flight data to determine the crash's cause.
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Investigators recover cockpit section from fatal jet crash off Nantucket
NANTUCKET — Canadian investigators announced today they have recovered the cockpit voice recorder and a portion of the cockpit from the medical transport jet that crashed in the waters south of Nantucket in the early morning hours of Oct. 3.
Cockpit voice recorder recovered from medical plane that crashed off Nantucket coast
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada, working with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Canadian Coast Guard, recovered a third of the aircraft’s cockpit, as well as the cockpit voice recorder. Both will be transported to the TSB’s Engineering Laboratory in Ottawa for examination.
The Toronto Star
Investigators recover cockpit recorder from Ontario air ambulance that crashed off Massachusetts coast
The early October flight, which went down off the coast of Nantucket, Mass., after departing Bermuda, was carrying six people, including four Canadian crew members.
Investigators recover cockpit voice recorder of Ontario air ambulance in fatal crash off Massachusetts
The cockpit voice recorder of the Hamilton-based Latitude Air Ambulance that crashed in early October in the U.S., killing six people, has been recovered, the Transportation Safety Board of Canada said Monday.
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