NTSB to interview pilots, survey site of ditched 737 cargo plane off Hawaii coast

Nationwide Transportation Security Board investigators plan to make use of sonar imaging on Monday to attempt to find a Boeing 737-200 cargo jet that ditched off the coast of Hawaii final week.

Transair Flight 810 made an emergency touchdown within the ocean off the coast of Oahu round 1:30 a.m. native time on Friday. The cargo aircraft’s pilots reported engine bother shortly after leaving Honolulu. Each of the pilots had been rescued.

The NTSB mentioned it should first discover the precise location of the 46-year-old aircraft earlier than the cockpit voice and knowledge recorders will be recovered.

“Investigators plan to make use of facet scan sonar Monday to survey the particles subject, the situation of the airplane and its location, together with how far beneath the floor the aircraft sank,” it mentioned in an announcement. “That data might be used to find out how and when the recorders may very well be recovered after which how and if the airplane might be salvaged.”

The NTSB mentioned it’s also scheduling interviews with the 2 pilots, air visitors controllers and upkeep employees at cargo airline Transair.

The company mentioned a small quantity of floating particles was recovered and examined by NTSB. The precise trigger or causes of the crash can take months to find out.

The provider did not reply to a request for remark.

One of many pilots advised an air visitors controller that the aircraft misplaced an engine and that there was an opportunity it was going to lose the opposite, based on audio posted to LiveATC.internet.

The controller warned them that their altitude was low however one other pilot responded that they could not climb.

The NTSB mentioned it met with events to the investigation — the Federal Aviation Administration, the Nationwide Air Visitors Controllers Affiliation, Boeing, Pratt & Whitney, which made the aircraft’s engines, and Rhodes Aviation — the plane’s operator, on Saturday.