PHILADELPHIA (AP) – De Cockpit Voice Recorder did not work on a medical transport plane that crashed in Philadelphia in January and probably did not work for several years, said the National Transportation Safety Board in a provisional report that was published on Thursday. The NTSB also confirmed that the crew did not make emergency calls to air the traffic control during the one -minute flight. A land warning system that may contain flight data memory is still evaluated by the manufacturer, the desk said.
The medical transport plane collapsed within a minute of departure in a residential and commercial area in the Noordoost -Philadelphia airport and broke out in a fireball on the evening of January 31. Officials said that the crash was on board the Learjet 55 and a seventh person who was on the ground in a vehicle. At least two dozen others were injured on the ground, including a 10-year-old boy in a vehicle hit by rubble while trying to protect his sister.
Those on the plane include an 11-year-old girl who had received medical treatment in the Philadelphia Hospital of Shriners Children. Jet Rescue Air Ambulance said the plane Valentina Guzmán Murillo and her 31-year-old mother, Lizeth Murillo Osuna, had taken the home of Mexico.
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Jet Rescue identified his team members as Dr. Raul Meza Arredondo, 41; the captain, Alan Montoya Perales, 46; De Copilot, Josue de Jesus Juarez Juarez, 43; and paramedician Rodrigo Lopez Padilla, 41. All four came from Mexico.
NTSB -chairman Jennifer Homendy has said that air traffic controllers have heard nothing about before the crash.
According to the report, the recorder was found eight feet (2.4 meters) underground after the aircraft had crashed and had considerable damage, including exposure to liquids. After extensive cleaning and repairs, the desk discovered that the tape of 30 minutes did not have an audio of the flight.
The high-impact crash left the aircraft very fragmented and a rubble field that according to the NTSB was about 1,410 feet long and 840 ft wide on Thursday.
The American transport secretary Sean Duffy, who visited the crash site with researchers, said the plane to “a very steep angle” and that the impact area was remarkably “extensive”.
City officials said that the resulting fire and the rubble have destroyed more than a dozen houses and companies or considerably damaged.
Andrew Parker Felix, a lawyer in Orlando, in Florida, represents a man who drove home from his work when his SUV was flooded in aircraft fuel through the crash. He said that the man spent 11 days on an intensive care unit, through the skin transplants.
“This will be a long way of recovery for him,” said Felix.
At least three other law firms have said they represent victims of the crash.
The crash was one of a series of recent aviation tramps and close calls that caused some people to worry about the safety of flying. It only came two days after an American Airlines – Jet and an army helicopter collided in Washington, DC – the deadly American air disaster in a generation.
