One of the reasons for having two engines is so you can have two almost totally independent systems -- separate fuel feeds, separate ignition systems -- just as kind of a backup, ... So the chances of two of them failing simultaneously makes us very curious about the cause. |
Our operation here is winding down. |
Some of them literally walked away from here and checked into a hotel room. So we are now trying to find everyone and coordinate the manifest, which the coroner has, with the people we have in hotel rooms or who are in hospitals. |
The area of failure was part of that work, |
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The driver was severely impaired. The fact that the driver was able to drive for three and a half miles seriously suggests that he had developed a tolerance for alcohol. It is likely he had done this before. |
The operations group will be interviewing the crew this afternoon. I understand that he saw some misalignment in the track that caused him to put his brakes on. |
The recording obtained from the accident CVR was completely blank, with no conversations or aircraft noise heard on any of the four channels. |
There could be ... We're looking into that. |
There is relatively little damage to the propellers, ... And this of course would imply and back up the pilots' report of losing power on both engines. |
There's a considerable amount of the airplane still left, ... The lighter-weight aluminum components did melt during the fire, but the structure is still there and the engines and the center wing section are still pretty well intact, so we think we can get some information from that. |
There's a considerable amount of the airplane still left. The lighter-weight aluminum components did melt during the fire, but the structure is still there and the engines and the center wing section are still pretty well intact, so we think we can get some information from that. |
This is not a cause -- it might have possibly been a prevention. |
This seriously hampers the investigation. Let's face it. We're now reduced on this accident to having only radar data and whatever information we can glean from that (and) eyewitness statements. |
Those are facts and there has been no analysis done on any of this. |