NTSB officials said Friday that they have recovered the black boxes from the wreck of the Continental commuter plane that dropped out of the sky Thursday and nose-dived into a suburban Buffalo home. All 49 people aboard and one person in the home were killed. It was the nation's first deadly crash of a commercial airliner in 2 1/2 years.
Authorities said the plane, a Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 turboprop, was operated by Manassas, Va.-based Colgan Air. It was en route from Newark to Buffalo when it went down in a residential area at approximately 10:20 p.m.
Spokesman Steven Chealander of the National Transportation Safety Board said that the flight data and cockpit voice recorders were recovered, and that they were able to listen to the crew's conversations moments before the crash.
"The crew discussed significant ice buildup, ice on the windshield and leading edge on the wings," Chealander said. "Right after that 'severe pitch and roll' were the words that were used."
The cause of the disaster remained under investigation, but other pilots were overheard around the same time complaining of ice building up on their wings as well -- a hazard that has caused major crashes in the past.
(Source: CBS2 HD)
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