GREENACRES, Florida. —
Investigators announced Monday that they had recovered the cockpit voice recorder from the Learjet crash in Greenacres on Nov. 1 that killed all nine people on board.
The National Transportation Safety Board released photos Monday afternoon showing the orange case containing the so-called black box. The NTSB hopes the device will shed light on the causes of the accident.
“More information is needed, and more information is always helpful in an investigation,” said John Gagliano, a former Navy pilot and aviation attorney.
Gagliano explained that the black box contains a cockpit voice recorder, which captures all conversations in the cockpit.
“We have a glimpse of what was happening in the cockpit. We already have some because the co-pilot was transmitting to air traffic control,” Gagliano said.
Recordings of these transmissions were released shortly after the accident.
In these transmissions, we can hear the co-pilot, Nathalia Gadelha Filgueiras, taking stock of the plane’s first malfunctions.
“We are descending 22,000 feet,” Filgueiras said in a transmission. “And we do banking.”
Gagliano said there were conversations in the cockpit that were not transmitted.
It is these conversations that could shed light on the cause of the accident.
“They were maybe talking to each other about things they were seeing, things they were doing, a checklist they were considering.”
The NTSB took the cockpit voice recorder to its Vehicle Recording Laboratory in Washington, D.C., where it will analyze the data.
Gagliano noted that the integrity of the records remains uncertain, as the box could have been damaged in the crash. However, he stressed that these devices are designed to survive impacts like this.
At this point, there is no time frame for the NTSB to determine the cause of the accident.
Officials confirmed that excavation work at the impact site on Military Trail has been completed.
Meanwhile, Palm Beach County officials announced today that residents of the mobile home park near the crash site in Greenacres can now return home. They also said people living in the Greenacres Community Center who cannot return home due to the damage have been provided with temporary accommodation.
The Military Trail remains closed between 10th Avenue North and Cresthaven Boulevard.
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