Main wreckage of cargo plane recovered from Hong Kong waters after deadly crash

HONG KONG (AP) — The main wreckage of a cargo plane that veered off a Hong Kong runway and plunged into the sea was recovered from the waters on Sunday, days after the deadly crash.

The Boeing 747, flown by Turkey-based ACT Airlines from Dubai, skidded after touchdown last Monday and collided with a patrol car, sending both autos into the sea. Two staff in the car had been killed. The 4 crew members on the plane had been unharmed.

Salvage crews lifted the entrance half of the fuselage, adjusting its place in the air at instances before slowly putting it onto a vessel. Before the salvage operation, consultants had performed an underwater sonar survey, and the runway where the crashed occurred was quickly closed.

The plane’s tail and other components had been lifted on Friday, as nicely as the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder. The devices had been despatched to a laboratory for preliminary examination, a authorities assertion said.

Investigators had been working to decide the trigger of the crash. The plane was operated under lease by Emirates, a long-haul service based in Dubai.

Representatives from the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board and Turkey’s Transport Safety Investigation Center, alongside consultants from Boeing, are also half of the investigation. The metropolis’s air accident investigation authority said it will release a preliminary report within one month.

Steven Yiu, the airport authority’s govt director for airport operations, earlier said that climate and runway situations met requirements during the crash, while mechanical and human components had been yet to be investigated.