The National Transportation Safety Board has recovered the cockpit voice recorder from the Atlas Air Boeing 767 freighter that crashed into Trinity Bay off Anahuac, Texas, on February 23, killing the two crewmembers and a third pilot occupying the jumpseat. The NTSB confirmed in a tweet that it is transporting the CVR to its labs in Washington, D.C. for evaluation.
A receding tide that left boats unable to traverse the roughly 200- by 100-yard debris field hampered efforts to find both the CVR and flight data recorder over the weekend of the crash. Since then the NTSB scoured the muddy seabed without success until Friday afternoon.
Flight 3591 departed Miami International Airport (MIA) at 11:33 am EST Saturday bound for Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH.) Video footage shows the Boeing 767-300ER in a steep decent several seconds before the converted freighter hit shallow marshland along the Texas gulf coast.
The widebody jet was one of 30 767s operated for Amazon.com's Prime Air subsidiary.