http://n.yam.com/afp/international/200812/20081223931515.html
美大陸航空事故飛航紀錄器 送抵華府調查
法新社╱蔡佳敏 2008-12-23 12:05
（法新社華盛頓22日電）美國大陸航空公司（Continental Airlines）昨天在丹佛發生客機滑出跑道意外，造成數十人受傷，事故飛機的飛航資料記錄器今天送抵華府，協助調查人員釐清出事原因。
美國「全國運輸安全委員會」（NationalTransportation Safety Board）官員今天在丹佛告訴媒體記者，調查人員已約談當天搭乘出事班機但沒有執行勤務的大陸航空機組員，也在今天與機場救難及消防隊人員談過話。
這名官員表示，雖然調查人員尚未約談機長，「我們會儘早著手處理，但我們必須確定每個機組員的身心狀況都準備好接受約談。」
這架飛往休士頓的大陸航空班機20日晚間滑出跑道、燃燒起火，機上115名乘客與機組員有38人受傷。當時火勢之大，機艙內的置物箱都因抵不了高溫而溶化。
「丹佛郵報」（The Denver Post）報導說，目前仍有5名乘客住院，其中1人傷勢嚴重。報導並未指出傷者受到什麼樣的傷。
調查人員表示，現在臆測意外原因還太早，但他們會調查天氣因素以及可能的發動機或是煞車失靈。
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081223/wl_afp/usaccidentair_081223040359
Investigators probe airplane's Denver runway skid
Mon Dec 22, 11:03 pm ET
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Flight data recorders arrived in Washington Monday to help investigators pinpoint the cause of the weekend runway skid of a Continental Airlines jet in Denver that sparked passenger panic and dozens of injuries.
The data recorders were recovered from the damaged Boeing 737-500 on Sunday, an official with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) told reporters in Denver.
"There is good data on those recorders," the spokesman said. "The crew conversations are audible ... I understand we should have some overall characterization of what was said in that cockpit."
The spokesman indicated that investigators had interviewed off-duty Continental staff aboard the plane, and Monday spoke with airport rescue and firefighting personnel.
Although the aircraft's captain has not yet been interviewed, "we will do it as soon as we possibly can ... but we want to make sure that he or she is mentally ready and physically ready to be interviewed," the spokesman said.
According to sources close to the investigation quoted by CNN, the pilot, a man, was seriously wounded and currently hospitalized.
The Houston-bound plane was carrying 115 passengers and crew when it veered off the runway and caught fire Saturday evening, injuring at least 38 people. The searing heat from the blaze was so hot it melted overhead cabins.
Five passengers on Tuesday remained hospitalized, one of them in serious condition, The Denver Post newspaper reported, without indicating the nature of their injuries.
NTSB member Robert Sumwalt said the airplane's nose gear collapsed and the right side of the aircraft had sustained "extensive fire damage."
He also said the interior was "quite burned" with the left engine "separated from the aircraft."
Investigators said it was too early to speculate as to the cause of the accident, but that weather and the possibility of engine or brake failure would all be studied.
The people aboard Flight 1404 on Saturday were evacuated via emergency chutes, as crews on scene quickly put out the fire. The plane lay flat on the ground, its landing gear shaved off after diving into a 40-foot (12-meter) ravine.
"We felt the plane veer to the left and my husband was holding my son (age one) and we felt some bumpiness and I thought it was just turbulence," passenger Maria Trejos told CNN.
"And I looked to the side and all of a sudden there was this giant fireball behind my husband's head," added Trejos, who said she was four months pregnant.
"That's when I knew something was wrong and we felt a bump and then I felt like we were airborne for a couple of seconds and then we hit a really big, I -- guess it was when we hit the ravine and then it just stopped."
Passenger Jeb Tilly recalled the skid, which occurred about a third of the way down the runway, as "incredibly violent."
"It was a big lefthand turn and we started bouncing a lot as if you were in the roller coaster, just getting tossed around in your seat. And then there was a lot of silence all of the sudden," he said.
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