The cockpit voice recorder from the Hamilton-based Latitude Air Ambulance that crashed in early October off the U. S. coast, resulting in six fatalities, has been retrieved.
In a Monday update, the Transportation Safety Board of Canada announced that they also recovered the cockpit.
The air ambulance departed Bermuda on Oct. 3 carrying four Canadians and two Bermudians.
The TSB stated that both the cockpit and recorder will be sent to their engineering laboratory in Ottawa “for further examination.”
They indicated that more updates will be provided as the investigation moves forward and “more information becomes available.”
Crew Faced Electrical Issues
The air ambulance crashed after the crew reported experiencing electrical problems while approaching Boston.
It descended rapidly, and contact with air traffic control was lost south of Nantucket, according to the agency.
Last month, Liam Mac Donald, media relations coordinator for the TSB, mentioned that the aircraft’s cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder, often called a black box, were “a key element to determining what happened.”
However, there was no mention of the black box during Monday’s update.
Crew members included Philip Gregory Childerhose, Thomas Henry Farquhar, Sarah Jane Paton, and Jolene Beth Weir, who were all living in southern Ontario and worked for Latitude Air Ambulance based in Ontario.
Passengers included Marilyn Lavonne Bean, 66, and her son Sergio Wayne Lottimore, 41.
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