Investigators recover cockpit voice recorder from fatal Learjet crash site
Learjet crash leaves devastating aftermath
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Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board have recovered a cockpit voice recorder from the primary crash site where a Learjet collided with a busy roadway in South Florida last week and killed all nine people on board.
Investigators were searching for the device as part of a larger search of the crash site to get
more insight of what led the plane to crash in Palm Beach County, Florida, on November 1.
Investigators will now try and see if the recorder is working and if any audio was captured.
While the cockpit voice recorder is one of the many pieces of the larger puzzle in what happened, it could give valuable information of what happened in the last moments before the plane tumbled out of the sky.
Federal investigators continue sifting through the wreckage of the Learjet 60 crash on November 6, 2026 in Greenacres, Florida, following the November 1 crash that killed all nine people on board.
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The cockpit voice recorder is being evaluated in the NTSB Vehicle Recorders Laboratory in Washington, D.C.,
the NTSB said, adding the excavation work at the impact site is now complete.
Jennifer Homendy, chairwoman of the NTSB, had previously asked anyone who found or recovered debris from the crash to contact the agency so they could retrieve it. “Recovering all available wreckage is critical to the investigation and helping to determine the cause of the crash,” she said in
a post on X.