Black box recovered at Shanksville site - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
By Richard Gazarik and Robin Acton
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Friday, September 14, 2001
Federal investigators hope the flight data recorder recovered from United Airlines Flight 93 will reveal what caused the Boeing 757 jetliner to crash into an abandoned Somerset County strip mine in a deadly sequence of terrorist attacks.
FBI Agent William Crowley announced Thursday afternoon that investigators using heavy equipment found the recorder in a crater at the crash site near Lambertsville in Stonycreek Township.
The device that electronically records the aircrafts instruments in the final moments before a plane crashes was packaged for transport to Washington, D.C., for analysis by officials from the National Transportation Safety Board, Crowley said.
Searchers yesterday also found one of the hijacked jetliners engines. But by evening, the cockpit voice recorder had not been recovered.