ANAHUAC, Texas – National Transportation Safety Board officials announced they have recovered the cockpit voice recorder of a cargo plane that nose-dived into the Trinity Bay and how it will help determine what caused the deadly crash.
NTSB has recovered the cockpit voice recorder from the cargo jet that crashed in
— NTSB_Newsroom (@NTSB_Newsroom) March 1, 2019
Trinity Bay in Anahuac, TX. CVR being transported to NTSB labs in DC and will
be evaluated when it arrives.#Anahuac
The Atlas Air flight 3591, which was being operated on behalf of Amazon, to plunged into water about 40 miles southeast of its Houston destination Saturday morning.
A video obtained Wednesday by KPRC2 showed the cargo plane moments before it crashed into Trinity Bay.
The video, which was recorded by a security camera at a school in Anahuac, shows only a second of Atlas Air flight 3591. It appeared to be traveling at a steep angle toward the ground.
The three people aboard the twin-engine Boeing 767 were killed. The bodies of Sean Archuleta and Conrad Aska have been recovered. Human remains believed to belong to the third person have also been found.