The tape covers a 17-minute period before and after the crash of Atlanta Southeast Airlines Flight 529, which killed two people on impact and fatally injured seven others. Radar controllers issued vectors to the West Georgia Regional Airport, near Carrollton. However, the aircraft crashed short of the field. The Captain was killed in the crash but the first officer, Matthew Warmerdam of Macon, Georgia, survived and remains hospitalized from injuries. Next week, the FAA and NTSB will release transcripts of the CVR tape, which shed more light on the cause of the crash.
Investigators know that one of the aircraft's props departed, evidently due to a defect.
Final cause has not yet been established. In the Jumbo Market With Seattle-based Boeing having a banner sales year, Airbus says it will concentrate on efforts to build a competitive design to the 747 jumbo jet. Boeing's total sales for 1995 amount to 346 airplanes, meaning the company has a 70 percent market share for new order in 1995. It surprised industry insiders last week by revealing that it had 85 previously unannounced orders, including 17 for variants of the 747. New Combat Helicopter Completes First Flight Sikorsky announced this week that the prototype RAH-66 Comanche helicopter flew for the first time at the company's Palm Beach, Florida test facility.