| Today, investigators are combing the crash sites and preparing to analyze flight data and cockpit voice recorders for vital clues. |
| German investigators were to begin analysing information from the planes' flight data recorders and cockpit voice recorders yesterday. |
| The plane was not required to have a cockpit voice recorder and was not equipped with one. |
| The two pilots of the jumbo had escaped before the hijackers had reached the cockpit, making it impossible to fly the plane. |
| A crew of three was required and they were housed in a single cockpit while radar was mounted in a radome at the front of the fuselage. |
| She's also busy developing standards for federal air marshals and flight deck officers so they can carry firearms in the cockpit. |
