ADDISON (1080 KRLD) - The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) says investigators have recovered the cockpit voice recorders from the plane that crashed shortly after taking off from Addison Airport Sunday.
Investigators say the plane was cleared to take off a minute before the end of the recording. The crew commented, "consistent with confusion," 12 seconds before the end of the recording.
Eight seconds before the end, the crew commented about problems with the left engine.
"We've interviewed several witnesses and other pilots," says NTSB Vice Chairman Bruce Landsberg. "Including a pilot who flew with the accident pilot several weeks before the flight on a flight from Teeterboro, who reported there was nothing unusual at that time."
Lead investigator Jennifer Rodi says the crash caused different parts of the plane to break apart.
"It certainly adds a level of difficulty," she says. "That's where the surveillance videos certainly help and just piecing together the smaller pieces. Part of what the team will be doing is taking those smaller pieces and putting together a puzzle, if you will, of what remains of the left wing and right wing."
She says the NTSB has brought in a specialist who will be able to study the propellers for the amount of acceleration and lift that was provided.
An initial report on the crash could be released in two weeks, but Landsberg says the final report will likely take at least 12 months.
The Dallas Co. Medical Examiner identified all 10 of the people who died in the incident:
Howard Hale Cassady, 71
Brian Mark Ellard, 52
Ornella Ellard, 45
Alice Giovanna Maritato, 15
Dylan Rocco Maritato, 13
Matthew John Palmer, 28
Gina Cunningham Thelen, 57
John Leo Titus, 61
Mary Marth Titus, 60