Read the transcript. Dennis Grossi of the National Transportation Safety Board holds the flight data recorder from American Airlines Flight 1420. The cockpit voice recorder is at right. James Cash of the NTSB, right, looks on. Federal investigators visited a hospital today to interview hospitalized survivors of American Airlines Flight 1420 while the victims' relatives went to the end of an airport runway to see the crumpled plane.
Investigators continue to search for the cause of the crash.
The relatives were kept about 100 yards from the MD-82, which crashed on landing late Tuesday night at Little Rock National Airport. Nine people were killed and 83 were injured. As eight charter buses rolled along Runway 4R to the site, National Transportation Safety Board investigators went through the city's University Hospital. We're going to get to as many people as we can get to now. Investigators want to know what passengers saw, heard and smelled before and during the accident.