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 from Eastern Air Lines Flight 980, which crashed on Mount Illimani in 1985, killing all 29 passengers, has been found after more than three decades.
- Mountain climbers Dan Futrell and Isaac Stoner discovered the "black box" last year and recently turned it over to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) for investigation.
- Original recovery efforts in 1985 failed due to deep snow covering the wreckage, which has since migrated down the mountain with melting ice.
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