Transcripts will be made of the 62 hours of flight-recorder data, but only an hour or less pertains to the Little Rock flight. Feith said he had information on the left outboard and right inboard spoilers. He did not know whether the recorder had information on the others. Flight 1420's recorder has about 70 different readings. American Airlines' overseas flights take more than 135 readings.
Many planes take only a dozen.
What the flight recorder doesn't tell investigators, the wreckage might. A steel spike protruding from beneath Origel's seat is witness mark 148. The plane's two jet engines were dug from the marsh Friday, and crews used cranes to load them onto flatbed trucks. They will be taken to American's maintenance hangar in Tulsa for a closer look. The engines may be dismantled, but they'll likely be reinstalled in another aircraft, Black said.