More than three decades after Eastern Air Lines Flight 980 impacted Mount Illimani in Bolivia, killing all 29 passengers on board, its flight data recorder has been found and turned over to the National Transportation Safety Board for investigation.
NTSB Retrieves Long-Lost Eastern Air Lines Flight 980 Black Box
Key Takeaways:
- The flight data recorder (black box) from Eastern Air Lines Flight 980, which crashed in 1985, has been found by mountain climbers on Mount Illimani in Bolivia.
- The climbers turned the device over to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) for investigation more than three decades after the original crash.
- The NTSB will investigate the recovered data to determine the cause of the crash, which was previously impossible due to the inaccessible crash site, and will report findings to Bolivian authorities.
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