The plane and apartment building exploded in flames.
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In a briefing with reporters yesterday, NTSB vice chairman Bella Dinh-Zarr said the Safety Board recovered the cockpit voice recorder of the aircraft, N237WR, and has obtained security camera footage of the accident.
The crash, the deadliest in Akron’s history, captured national and worldwide attention. The cause of the plane crash has not yet been determined but a federal source reportedly told ABC News on Tuesday that the reason of the crash “appears to be mechanical”.
It was not immediately clear where the small, twin-engine business jet had taken off from.
The plane scraped power lines before it went through the apartment building. Seven of the nine were employees for Pebb Enterprises, a real estate company based out of Boca.
Diana Suriel, Nick Weaver and Ori Rom were also killed in the crash.
The owner of the charter company said he had to call the pilot’s family. It made stops in Minneapolis, St. Louis and Cincinnati. The plane flew to Dayton on Tuesday morning and then headed to Akron, according to the NTSB.
Authorities have confirmed that nine people died in the crash of a chartered corporate jet in East Akron.
“Outside of a controlled runway landing, getting a plane down safely in an emergency would have been a very tough task”, Vagell said.
NTSB lead investigator Jim Silliman said investigators interviewed the pilot who successfully landed a plane just before the Hawker H25, carrying seven passengers, crashed. The two engines have been sent to the manufacturer.
The NTSB will hold another news conference today.
On Wednesday, their bodies were removed from the wreckage.
Ohio Highway Patrol spokesman Bill Haymaker said it will be a lengthy investigation and recovery could take days.
Kohler said Wednesday that officials have notified crash victims’ families. The video shows that the aircraft was flying at a low altitude and banking to the left. The plane reportedly clipped a few electrical wires as it fell into the side of a four-story apartment complex. She said her sister was traveling with company executives and they were searching for real estate development sites to purchase.
Then there is the struggle for those in Akron whose lives have been turned upside down by the crash.
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“I was just in shock, and I was crying and upset”, Beth Montgomery said, according to Newsnet 5, referring to the crash and losing her home in the incident, adding: “I lost everything”. She had just awoken from a nap and was going to go and get her son from school.
