The cockpit voice recorder on a medevac plane that crashed in Philadelphia earlier this year contained no data from the fatal ...

That and the whole flight data recorder are important to find out what went wrong so it can be prevented in the future.” ...

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.

Both were type-rated on the Learjet 55. Instrument conditions prevailed at the time of the take-off, in darkness with an overcast cloud base just 400ft above ground level. Visibility was around 10km.

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 ...

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 ...

(Bloomberg) -- The cockpit voice recorder on a medevac plane that crashed in Philadelphia ... said in a preliminary report on Thursday. The Learjet 55 operated by Jet Rescue Air Ambulance crashed ...

The startling disclosure that could hamper efforts to figure out why the medevac plane went down comes ... All six people on the Learjet 55 were killed — including 11-year-old Valentina Guzman ...

The Learjet 45XR provides enhanced performance with upgraded engines, offering exceptional takeoff and climb capabilities. This jet boasts a stylish double club flat floor layout, a belted lavatory, ...

So far, the Medevac jet that plummeted from the sky and ... (Photo by Thomas Hengge/Anadolu via Getty Images) The Learjet 55 crash not only injured people on the ground but also set homes and ...