PHILADELPHIA — A key piece of hardware that aviation experts and pilots said could solve the mystery in the fatal crash of the medical transport Learjet on Jan. 31 turned out to be useless.

Credit: NTSB The cockpit voice recorder did not record the moments before a Learjet 55 medical jet crashed earlier this year in a Philadelphia neighborhood, killing six people on the aircraft and ...

US investigators have disclosed that the cockpit-voice recorder on the ambulance Learjet 55 which fatally crashed in Philadelphia failed to capture audio from the flight.

The NTSB's early investigation into the Jan. 31 crash revealed little about what caused the Learjet 55 to go down seconds after taking off from Northeast Philadelphia Airport. The jet slammed into ...

And while the doomed Learjet 55 was in contact with an air traffic control tower, "there were no distress calls received from the flight crew," the report said. The fiery crash killed six people ...

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The original incident occurred on Friday, January 31st, earlier this year. A Learjet 55 private jet, registered as XA-UCI, was flying from Northeast Philadelphia Airport (PNE) to Springfield-Branson ...

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