Accidents
Investigators Prepare To Analyze FDR from Atlas Air Wreckage
The NTSB expects data from the FDR and CVR from Atlas Air Flight 3591 will help gain insight into the crash of the Boeing 767.
Recovery crews located the flight data recorder from Atlas Air Flight 3591 on March 3, two days after they found the airplane’s cockpit voice recorder. (Photo: NTSB)
Recovery crews located the flight data recorder from Atlas Air Flight 3591 on March 3, two days after they found the airplane’s cockpit voice recorder. (Photo: NTSB)

Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) awaited the arrival in Washington. D.C., on Monday of the flight data recorder (FDR) from the Atlas Air cargo jet that crashed February 23 while approaching to land at George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH). Search crews located the FDR on March 3, two days after recovering the jet’s cockpit voice recorder (CVR) from the shallow coastal waters of Trinity Bay near Anahuac, Texas.