Bodies, Recorder Recovered From Crash
Investigators removed 14 bodies and the cockpit voice recorder Wednesday from the wreckage of a fiery runway crash at an airport with no control tower to guide pilots.
The charred bodies were left on the runway of Baldwin Municipal Airport overnight and removed after investigators examined the wreckage of Tuesday’s collision between a United Express commuter plane and a small private plane.
Clues to what caused the accident could come from the cockpit recorder taken from the commuter plane. Unlike a jetliner, it had no flight data recorder. The private plane had neither.
The United Express Beech 1900 from Burlington, Iowa, carrying two crew members and 10 passengers, had just landed when it collided with the smaller plane, which was taking off with two people. The crash came at the intersection of two runways. It was overcast and nearly dark.
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