NTSB Releases New Details In FedEx Plane Crash
By: Allison Morrison
Updated: January 30, 2009
The National Transportation Safety Board released new details Friday on Tuesday morning's FedEx plane crash.
A NTSB official says it could be 12 to 15 months before the investigation is completed, but preliminary findings indicate the plane's landing instrumentation was working properly at the time of the crash.
It is still unknown if weather played a part in the accident.
Investigators are interviewing witnesses, as well as the pilots on that flight, trying to piece together the events leading up to the crash.
"We got the aircraft secured and we were able to remove the cockpit voice recorder and also the flight data recorder. They have been shipped to Washington, D.C. and they are being downloaded as we speak this week and will be reviewed over the next several weeks," Leah Yeager with NTSB says.
The plane will be transported to a facility in Lancaster, Texas.
