US Investigators Find Black Box Of Crashed Seattle Plane

Seattle, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 13th Aug, 2018 ) :US investigators on Sunday said they found the flight data recorder of the Horizon Air plane stolen by a troubled Seattle airport worker amid plane wreckage on a sparsely populated island in Washington state.

After falling through several 100-foot (30-meter) lines of trees, the Bombardier Q400 plane broke up into pieces small enough to pick up by hand, National Transportation Safety board (NTSB) Western Pacific Region chief Debra Eckrote told CNN.

"You couldn't even tell it was a plane except for some of the bigger sections, like the wing section," Eckrote said.

"Even the small sections, most of it doesn't resemble a plane." Ekrote said that the flight data recorder -- commonly known as the airplane's "black box" -- was burned but otherwise intact.

NTSB investigators will send the recorder to Washington D.C. to analyze the data for clues next week.

Two F-15 fighter jets chased the twin-engine turboprop plane that baggage handler Richard Russell hijacked late Friday.