Cockpit Voice Recorder Recovered From Cargo Plane That Crashed Into Trinity Bay

The cockpit voice recorder from the Boeing 767 cargo plane that crashed Saturday in Trinity Bay has been recovered, according to a tweet from the National Transportation Safety Board.

The voice recorder is now being transported to the NTSB labs in D.C. where it will be analyzed. An NTSB spokesperson confirmed they’re still searching for the flight data recorder.

NTSB has recovered the cockpit voice recorder from the cargo jet that crashed in
Trinity Bay in Anahuac, TX. CVR being transported to NTSB labs in DC and will
be evaluated when it arrives.#Anahuac

— NTSB_Newsroom (@NTSB_Newsroom) March 1, 2019

Atlas Air was operating the plane for Amazon when it nose-dived into the bay's shallow water, killing all three men on board.

Both the mud and depth of the water had made it difficult for crews to uncover the bodies and the black box.

To date, they have recovered the bodies of two of the three people who were aboard the Houston-bound flight.

The bodies recovered have been identified as those of Conrad Aska, the 44-year-old first officer and co-pilot of the Atlas Air flight, and Sean Archuleta, a 36-year-old pilot who was on the flight as a passenger, according to a Monday statement from the sheriff’s office. A third person on the flight, Capt. Ricky Blakely, is believed to be dead, but his body has not been located.