Federal air crash investigators are expected to brief the media at 5 p.m. today at Hanscom Field on the progress of their probe into the private jet accident there Saturday night that killed seven people.
Investigators on Monday recovered the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorders from the plane. The devices were expected to provide investigators with valuable clues into the cause of the crash.
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The plane was taking off at about 9:40 p.m. Saturday, heading to Atlantic City, N.J., with Lewis Katz, 72, owner of the Philadelphia Inquirer, aboard, as well as three of his guests and a three-member crew.
An airport employee who witnessed the crash said it appeared the plane never left the ground, National Transportation Safety Board investigators have said.
NTSB officials have said the plane left the end of the official runway, which is 7,011 feet long, traveled another 1,000 feet of extra paved surface, then more than 819 feet on the grass before hurtling into a gully at the edge of the airport, where it was consumed by flames.
Along the way, the plane destroyed an antenna used to guide planes on instrument landing approaches, as well as a chain-link fence, investigators have said.
The crew members aboard the plane were: pilot James McDowell, 51, of Georgetown, Del.; copilot Bauke 'Mike' De Vries, 45, of Marlton, N.J.; and flight attendant, Teresa Ann Benhoff, 48, of Easton, Md.
Katz's guests were: Anne Leeds, a retired preschool teacher from Longport, N.J.; Marcella Dalsey, executive director of the Drew A. Katz Foundation; and Susan K. Asbell, who served with Dalsey on the strategic planning committee of the Boys & Girls Club of Camden County, N.J.
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