NTSB Recovers Boeing Airplane Debris Off Hawaii in Probe of Emergency Landing

The U.S. Coast Guard and Honolulu Fire Department respond to an emergency nighttime landing of a Boeing 737-200 cargo plane in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Honolulu, Hawaii, on July 2, 2021. Courtesy U.S. Coast Guard via Reuters

NEW YORK—The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board on Monday said it has recovered debris from a downed Boeing 737-200 cargo plane and will continue to investigate the cause of the aircraft’s emergency water landing, which injured two people, off Hawaii last week.

Investigators plan to use sonar technology to locate the decades-old plane, which was substantially damaged and sank, and recover cockpit voice and flight data recorders, the NTSB said in a statement.