According to audio taken from the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) of the cargo plane that crashed near Houston’s George Bush International Airport Feb. 23, “crew communications consistent with a loss control of the aircraft began approximately 18 seconds prior to the end of the recording.”
That description from the National Transportation Safety Board’s (NTSB) Office of Research and Engineering Vehicle Recorder Division was part of a preliminary report into the crash of Atlas Air Flight 3591, which claimed the lives of the three pilots on board. The Boeing 767-300 cargo jet, which was carrying cargo for Amazon.com Inc., and the US Postal Service, crashed in the muddy marshland of Trinity Bay Feb. 23, 2019, about 40 miles from the airport.