Crashed Plane’s Black Boxes Found at Sea
The Navy has found the black boxes from a military plane that crashed last month into the Pacific Ocean, killing 10 crew members, a naval commander said Sunday.
A remote-controlled submarine located the wreckage about 40 miles off California’s Cape Mendocino, in water nearly a mile deep, Navy Lt. Cmdr. Jack Papp said Sunday from his home in San Diego.
The unmanned submarine Scorpio, equipped with a video camera, located the boxes containing the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder, Papp said. The Air Force Reserve HC-130 Hercules cargo plane crashed Nov. 22 during a training exercise about 40 miles off Cape Mendocino after crew members reported engine trouble.
Sonar aboard the Navy ship, the Laney Chouest, located the debris field Friday in the vicinity of the crash site, at a depth of about 5,100 feet, Papp said. The plane’s tail section was videotaped Saturday by the submarine.
Papp said any questions about whether Scorpio located any bodies would be answered by the Air Force.
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