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USAirways Express Plane Crashes into Airport Hangar
Aired January 09, 2003 - 08:16 ET
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BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: Yet again today investigators analyzing that flight data and voice recorders from the commuter plane that crashed in Charlotte, North Carolina right about this time yesterday. The USAirways Express turbo prop crashed into an airport hangar after takeoff yesterday. Twenty-one on board dead, including two crew members.
David Mattingly this morning at the scene of that crash watching for the latest for us -- David, good morning.
DAVID MATTINGLY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Bill.
We are approaching the 24 hour mark in this tragedy and investigators seem to be off to a pretty good start. Both of the so- called black boxes, the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder have been recovered. They are in Washington and they are being analyzed.
It is hoped that they will yield some quick answers this morning and some insight into what caused this Beechcraft 1900D turbo prop to crash on takeoff yesterday, killing everyone on board.
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JOHN GOGLIA, NTSB: The voice recorder has proven to be very reliable. We have 34 minutes of good conversation off the recorder. That means that we not only have this entire flight, but we have portions of the previous flight. So that is proving to be a very good source of information for us right now. In fact, our folks are poring over what was taken off of that recorder in the first reads and determining our work load for today from that data.
Now, the flight data recorder is proving a little, proving to be a little more difficult in extracting the information. They are continuing to work on it and are confident that we will get good data from that box later today.
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MATTINGLY: And now that the sun has come up, you can once again see the blackened corner of the hangar where the crash occurred. That's where investigators will be working today. They will be working to locate and then collect every single piece of debris they can possibly find -- Bill.
HEMMER: David, a question about turbo props. Many people when they fly in that part of the country experience this small commuter plane. Do you know how widespread aircraft like these are right now used? Are they being phased out in favor of the small regional jets that are being, essentially popping up at numerous airports across the country now?
MATTINGLY: Based on what we've been told, this particular turbo prop is fairly widely used. I don't know about any phasing out of the turbo prop. But it has been a work horse for the years since it's been in service, since 1991, when it first went on the market.
HEMMER: David, thank you.
David Mattingly on the scene there in Charlotte.
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Aired January 9, 2003 - 08:16 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: Yet again today investigators analyzing that flight data and voice recorders from the commuter plane that crashed in Charlotte, North Carolina right about this time yesterday. The USAirways Express turbo prop crashed into an airport hangar after takeoff yesterday. Twenty-one on board dead, including two crew members.
David Mattingly this morning at the scene of that crash watching for the latest for us -- David, good morning.
DAVID MATTINGLY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Bill.
We are approaching the 24 hour mark in this tragedy and investigators seem to be off to a pretty good start. Both of the so- called black boxes, the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder have been recovered. They are in Washington and they are being analyzed.
It is hoped that they will yield some quick answers this morning and some insight into what caused this Beechcraft 1900D turbo prop to crash on takeoff yesterday, killing everyone on board.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
JOHN GOGLIA, NTSB: The voice recorder has proven to be very reliable. We have 34 minutes of good conversation off the recorder. That means that we not only have this entire flight, but we have portions of the previous flight. So that is proving to be a very good source of information for us right now. In fact, our folks are poring over what was taken off of that recorder in the first reads and determining our work load for today from that data.
Now, the flight data recorder is proving a little, proving to be a little more difficult in extracting the information. They are continuing to work on it and are confident that we will get good data from that box later today.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
MATTINGLY: And now that the sun has come up, you can once again see the blackened corner of the hangar where the crash occurred. That's where investigators will be working today. They will be working to locate and then collect every single piece of debris they can possibly find -- Bill.
HEMMER: David, a question about turbo props. Many people when they fly in that part of the country experience this small commuter plane. Do you know how widespread aircraft like these are right now used? Are they being phased out in favor of the small regional jets that are being, essentially popping up at numerous airports across the country now?
MATTINGLY: Based on what we've been told, this particular turbo prop is fairly widely used. I don't know about any phasing out of the turbo prop. But it has been a work horse for the years since it's been in service, since 1991, when it first went on the market.
HEMMER: David, thank you.
David Mattingly on the scene there in Charlotte.
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