The Federal Aviation Administration, the National Transportation Safety Board and other state and local officials planned to hold a news conference around noon Wednesday at the crash site.
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Seven employees of a real estate company in Florida and two pilots on board the commercial jet were killed on Tuesday when a business jet crashed into an apartment building in Akron, Ohio.
Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board were back at the scene of the crash on Thursday to examine evidence, including surveillance video of the crash, to determine what went wrong.
Investigators at a lab in Washington will review what’s on the voice recorder.
When a twin-engine charter jet slammed into an Akron, Ohio, apartment complex on Tuesday just before 3 p.m., Jason Bartley’s building took the brunt of the devastation.
A Florida real estate company says seven of its associates were among the nine believed killed in the crash.
“The video shows that the aircraft was flying at a low altitude and banking to the left”, NTSB Vice Chairman, Bella Dinh-Zarr said.
The landing gear and flaps were found in the “down” position, or the normal positions for landing, Dinh-Zarr said.
Roberta Porter, who lives about a block from the site, said she saw the plane crash as she was driving nearby. It appeared to be about the size of one of the planes Honeywell jet engines, which investigators say were removed and will be delivered to the manufacturer for examination.
According to the NTSB, the airport does not have a control tower. The crew and passengers overnighted in Cincinnati, leaving Tuesday at 10 a.m. for Dayton before heading to Akron in the afternoon.
The front of the apartment building was destroyed.
The company issued a statement saying it was a time of unimaginable loss and mourning and is providing support to the families of those who died.
It flew from Fort Lauderdale on Monday to St. Paul, Minn.; Moline, Ill.; St. Louis and Cincinnati, where the crew and passengers stayed overnight.
The cause of the crash was not immediately clear.
“Our specific role in Akron was to collect the evidence and document the victims”, Dirkmatt says.
Dr. Lisa Kohler, Summit County medical examiner, said that before any names from the flight’s manifest would be released, her agency would rely on matching medical records supplied by survivors to the victims’ IDs and remains.
“The left wing hit the ground first and left a witness mark. It is heavily burned, and that what lies the problem with the recovery at this point, and that’s why we have the specialists”, Haymaker said.
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Investigators spoke with a pilot who landed at Akron Fulton Airport right before the Hawker 125-700 was supposed to land.
