Department
of Defense Press Release
Black Boxes Found at Pentagon Crash Site
Washington, D.C.
September 14, 2001
The Department of Defense announced this morning that at approximately 4:00
a.m., today, searchers found the flight data and cockpit voice recorders in
the wreckage of the plane that hit the Pentagon on Tuesday, Sep. 11. The recorders
are in the possession of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The National Transportation
Safety Board is providing technical assistance in reading the data on the recorders,
which are currently at the NTSB laboratory in Washington, D.C.