A National Transportation Safety Board official says neither of the two vintage military aircraft that collided at a Dallas air show had flight data or cockpit voice recordings but there are other electronics that could possibly help shed light on what happened.
“Neither aircraft was equipped with a flight data recorder or a cockpit voice recorder, often known as the black boxes. However, we recovered this morning via an electronic flight display from the B-17 and a GPS navigational unit from the P-63,” said NTSB member Michael Graham at a Monday afternoon news conference. “The units from both aircraft were damaged during the accident, accident. They’re both being sent to the NTSB’s recorder lab in Washington, D.C. to determine whether data and relevant information can be recovered from both units.”
