{"id":363519,"date":"2010-02-25T18:12:30","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T23:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/press-releases\/faa-releases-air-traffic-tower-audio-from-before-des-plaines-plane-crash"},"modified":"2010-02-25T18:12:30","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T23:12:30","slug":"faa-releases-air-traffic-tower-audio-from-before-des-plaines-plane-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/363519","title":{"rendered":"FAA releases air traffic tower audio from before Des Plaines plane crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Federal Aviation Administration released the final recording between air traffic control and the pilots of a Learjet cargo plane that crashed into the Des Plaines River on Jan. 5, killing the pilots.<\/p>\n

About half of the 24-minute recording is blank, but at one point an air traffic controller describes where the plane went down.<\/p>\n

“It crashed south of the airport someplace,” the controller said. “It was almost lined up with the runway, about three-quarters of a mile south, maybe a little east but by a very, very small amount,”<\/p>\n

About 12 minutes into the recording, the air traffic controller concludes the plane had crashed.<\/p>\n

“He didn’t make it, he went down a mile from the runway,” the controller said. <\/span>“He didn’t make it to the airport. I just had a Leer go down.”<\/p>\n

Because the investigation is ongoing, FAA officials declined to comment on the recording.<\/p>\n

The plane’s two pilots, Stephen Ellis and Ryan Daenzer, both of Michigan, died in the crash.<\/p>\n

The multi-engine, fixed-wing plane was headed to the Wheeling airport to pick up freight about 10:30 p.m. Jan. 5 to be delivered to an airport in Atlanta. The FAA said there were no reports of problems with the plane under Royal or previous owners.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Read the original article on DailyHerald.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Distributed via Chicago Press Release Services<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Federal Aviation Administration released the final recording between air traffic control and the pilots of a Learjet cargo plane that crashed into the Des Plaines River on Jan. 5, killing the pilots. About half of the 24-minute recording is blank, but at one point an air traffic controller describes where the plane went down. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}