A cockpit audio recorder that may have captured the doomed Learjet crew’s final moments before it crashed in a fireball in Palm Beach, Florida was miraculously recovered from the plane’s wreckage, officials said.
The aircraft’s cockpit voice recorder — which captures the sound inside the cockpit, including pilot conversations, radio transmissions and audio alerts — was found at the plane’s Greenacres crash site, the National Transportation Safety Board announced in an X post.
Officials said that they took the device to the NTSB Vehicle Recorders Laboratory in Washington, DC for evaluation and added that excavation work at the crash site is complete.
Any recovered recordings of the pilots’ final moments will allow investigators to hear the decisions they made in the lead-up to the shocking high-speed, nose-dive crash that killed nine on Nov. 1.
The voice recorder is part of what’s known as a “black box,” which smaller commercial, corporate and private aircraft are required to have, according to the NTSB.
Recordings from the cabin could shed more light on what caused the $2 million private jet to plummet into a South Florida mobile home park in a terrifying, caught-on-camera crash.
The plane wreck injured only one person on the ground, but instantly killed all nine people on board the private flight from Austin, Texas to the Bahamas.
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Multimillionaire tech exec Adam Robinson, 44, his wife Helen Sharp, their two children and their nanny, Anita Ramirez Cetina, 24, were all passengers on the fateful flight.
Pilot in command Jeff Gregory, 55, and co-pilot Nathalia Filgueiras, 20, were also killed in the crash.
