next to the hull or seriously injured. you heard a big loud bang. i knew something bad was going on because the masks had come down. i had never experienced that before. reporter: the plane a new boeing 737 max 9. it made its first flight this past october and had been used by alaska airlines on only 150 trips. the federal aviation administration has temporarily grounded max 9s until alaska and united can make emergency inspections. we may look the at the manufacturer, the design of this aircraft, but we go where the evidence takes us. what is missing from the investigation is audio from the cockpit voice recorder, which was not recovered in time to stop its autothematic overwrite. gone are the recordings of the loud bang heard bypass engineers. its high time we improved the amount of data we get out of these voice recorders.
mid flight has been found. they say a portland schoolteacher contacted them after he found it in his backyard on sunday. we are really pleased that we, that bob found this. he took a picture. i can just see the outside of the door plug. we can t see anything else. the plane was at an altitude of 16,000 feet when it blew off. they asked for the public s health locating it. the plane s cockpit voice recorder was completely overwritten and there is nothing on it. cockpit voice recorders are not just convenient for the
investigators say the missing part of the alaska airlines plane that flew off midflight has been found. it was found in a backyard on sunday. we are pleased that bob found this. he took a photo. i can see the outside of the door plug from the photos. we will go pick that up and make sure we begin analyzing. investigators have been searching for the door plug sent to blew off the aircraft friday while the plane was at a altitude of 16,000 feet. investigators also say the planes cockpit voice recorder was overwritten and there is nothing on it. cockpit voice recorders are
that a private place. if what you re doing can involve consequences that leads to the deaths of others, i think you might have to give up a little bit of your so-called privacy. it s high time that we improved the amount of data we got out of these cockpit voice recorders, including video. and for that matter, it should be streaming out of the aircraft in real time. but that s you got me on my high horse. i ll take you on your high horse any time. thank you so much, miles, so much of the investigation to go. miles will help us walk through it all. john? just in, a powerful house chairman released a resolution recommending hunter biden be held in contempt of congress. so what happens next? and developing this morning, a senior hezbollah leader has been killed by an israeli drone strike in southern lebanon. we have details.
max 9s under alaska and american airlines can major emergency inspections. we may look at the design, but we go prothe evidence takes us. reporter: what is missing is audio from the cockpit voice recorder which was not recovered in time to stop the automatic override. gone are the recordings of the loud bang heard by passengers. it s high time we improved the amount of data we get out of the think voice recorders. reporter: investigators have uncovered one more piece of evidence. it had pressurization problems three times before this incident. a cockpit afollowing the own protocols, alaska airlines kept the plane from long over water flights, but it s not at this point they re not ruling