NTSB recovers Boeing plane particles off Hawaii in probe of unexpected emergency landing

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. National Transportation Basic safety Board on Monday explained it has recovered particles from a downed Boeing 737-200 cargo plane and will go on to investigated the induce of the aircraft’s crisis drinking water landing off of Hawaii past week.

Investigators system to use sonar technological innovation to find the decades-old plane and get well cockpit voice and flight info recorders, the NTSB said in a statement. The aircraft was forced to land in the Pacific Ocean early on Friday.

“Investigators strategy to use side scan sonar Monday to survey the particles area, the issue of the plane and its location, together with how much beneath the area the airplane sank,” the NTSB reported. “That information will be employed to establish how and when the recorders could be recovered and then how and if the airplane will be salvaged.”

The pilots of the aircraft experienced described engine issues and options to transform again to Honolulu soon prior to staying compelled to land, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, which is also investigating the incident, has claimed.

At about 2:30 a.m. that early morning, a U.S. Coastline Guard helicopter responding to stories of the downed aircraft spotted a debris industry and found one crew member clinging to the plane’s tail.

The NTSB said it is scheduling interviews with the flight’s crew, who were rescued, as properly as air website traffic controllers and routine maintenance workers.

(Reporting by Laila Kearney, Enhancing by Franklin Paul)