AKRON – Officials investigating the fiery Ohio plane crash that killed nine people say a pilot that had just landed at a nearby airport reported hearing no distress calls despite being on the same communications frequency as the aircraft that went down.
Officials from the National Transportation Safety Board say the crashed plane had been expected to land at a small Akron airport that doesn’t have a control tower, so the incoming flight was guided by a larger airport in the area.
National Transportation Safety Board Vice Chairman Bella Dinh-Zarr says investigators will remain at the site for several days.
We will be looking at every aspect of the aircraft,” she said. “From its maintenance records to when it was built, any modifications that were made to how many passengers it could hold.”
The NTSB says it’ll begin recovering parts of the plane today. They’ve already found the cockpit voice recorder and say they have surveillance video that shows the fiery crash of a small plane in Ohio that killed all nine people aboard.
The plane came in along treetops, banked to the left, slammed into an apartment building and exploded into flames, Dinh-Zarr said.
A Florida real estate company says seven of its associates were aboard the plane, on the second day of a multicity Midwestern trip to look at property for potential shopping centers. The two pilots also were killed.