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Cockpit voice recorder capturing doomed Learjet crew’s final moments recovered

By David DeTurris3 min readNew York Post
Cockpit voice recorder capturing doomed Learjet crew’s final moments recoveredCockpit voice recorder capturing doomed Learjet crew’s final moments recovered

The aircraft’s cockpit voice recorder -- which captures the sound inside the cockpit, including pilot conversations, radio transmissions and audio alerts -- was recovered from the wreck.

A cockpit audio recorder that may have captured the doomed Learjet crew’s final moments before it crashed in a fireball in Palm Beach, Florida was miraculously recovered from the plane’s wreckage, officials said. 

The aircraft’s cockpit voice recorder — which captures the sound inside the cockpit, including pilot conversations, radio transmissions and audio alerts — was found at the plane’s Greenacres crash site, the National Transportation Safety Board announced in an X post. 

A person wearing high-visibility work gloves holds a damaged, red aircraft galley container filled with debris.
The aircraft’s cockpit voice recorder, which captures the sound inside the plane’s cabin, was found at the plane’s Greenacres crash site, the National Transportation Safety Board announced in an X post.  NTSB
A technician at the Vehicle Recorders Lab inspects a damaged, bright orange flight data recorder.
Officials said that they took the device to the NTSB Vehicle Recorders Laboratory in Washington, D.C. for evaluation. NTSB

Officials said that they took the device to the NTSB Vehicle Recorders Laboratory in Washington, DC for evaluation and added that excavation work at the crash site is complete. 

Any recovered recordings of the pilots’ final moments will allow investigators to hear the decisions they made in the lead-up to the shocking high-speed, nose-dive crash that killed nine on Nov. 1. 

Crime scene investigators examine a debris-littered area near utility poles.
Recovered recordings of the pilots’ final moments will allow investigators to hear the decisions they made in the lead-up to the dramatic crash that killed nine on Nov. 1.  NY Post

The voice recorder is part of what’s known as a “black box,” which smaller commercial, corporate and private aircraft are required to have, according to the NTSB. 

Recordings from the cabin could shed more light on what caused the $2 million private jet to plummet into a South Florida mobile home park in a terrifying, caught-on-camera crash.

Dashcam footage shows a streak of light in the sky circled in red above a wet road with power lines and palm trees.
Recording from the cabin can shed more light on what caused the $2 million private jet to nose-dive into a South Florida mobile home park in a scary caught-on-camera incident.  Aki Kuusisto via Storyful

The plane wreck injured only one person on the ground, but instantly killed all nine people on board the private flight from Austin, Texas to the Bahamas. 

Here’s the latest on the fatal Learjet crash in Florida

  • Learjet co-pilot Nathalia Filgueiras’ dad breaks down as he reveals ‘I wanted to be by her side’ in final moments
  • Learjet crash exposes danger of flying private — which is up to 80X more deadly than commercial airlines
  • ‘Important pieces’ of doomed Learjet separated before crash that killed 9: officials
  • Tech exec Learjet victim made chilling post about ‘crashing a plane’ months before dying with family on flight

Multimillionaire tech exec Adam Robinson, 44, his wife Helen Sharp, their two children and their nanny, Anita Ramirez Cetina, 24, were all passengers on the fateful flight.

Pilot in command Jeff Gregory, 55, and co-pilot Nathalia Filgueiras, 20, were also killed in the crash.

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