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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Search Search: US investigators to review doomed plane's recorders AFP - 1 hour 49 minutes ago NEW YORK (AFP) - - Officials investigating the plane crash that killed 50 people outside of the northern US city of Buffalo were to examine on Sunday the flight data and cockpit voice recorders, officials said. ADVERTISEMENT National Transportation Safety Board ( NTSB ) investigator Steven Chealander said the review team would "start the very thorough analysis" of the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder. Forensic teams on Saturday scoured the rubble for human remains and pieces of the broken-up plane searching for clues to the cause of the crash of Continental Airlines Flight 3407, which plummeted onto a house in Clarence Center late Thursday. Investigators need three to four days to recover the remains of crash victims, Chealander said, adding that a team of 100 to 150 people from the FBI, local law enforcement, the medical examiner's office and fire department volunteers were working at the site. "I know this seems as though this is going to be painstakingly slow, but unfortunately, we're not like ... a 'CSI' show on television where we can solve it all in one hour," he warned, saying delays were due to ice formations at the crash site and the intermingling of charred remains of the house and plane. Federal investigators have suggested that ice build-up may have contributed to the crash, which killed all 49 passengers and crew, and one man in the crushed house, although his wife and daughter escaped with only minor injuries. But Chealander said the plane had "a very sophisticated de-icing system." He added that both of the plane's engines appear to have been working normally, stressing that the NTSB has not reached a final conclusion about the cause of the crash. The cockpit recorder and flight data recorder also showed that aerodynamic stall protection was activated on the aircraft, warning the pilot that there was not enough airflow over the wings to maintain lift, Chealander said. "Significant ice build-up is an aerodynamic impediment. Airplanes are built with wings that are shaped a certain way and ice can change the shape," he said earlier. Investigators said black box recordings showed the crew was concerned about the weather and low visibility due to snow and mist as they approached Buffalo. They asked to drop to 11,000 feet, but began to see a problem with ice. Seconds after it opened the landing gear, the plane suddenly began "a series of severe pitch and roll excursions," Chealander said. "Then shortly after that, the crew attempted to raise the gear and flaps just before the end of the recording. And that's it from the recording that we have thus far," he added. Chealander added that, contrary to early reports, the plane did not appear to have crashed nose-down but landed on its belly and was facing in the opposite direction from which it was headed. "There's been a lot of reports of the airplane coming nose down into the house in the accident. Eyewitnesses' reports and so forth," he said. "We found all four corners of the airplane, we have found the cockpit, the tail section, both wings, and engines and they are where should be if an airplane was laying flat," he added. Witnesses reported an unusual loud noise coming from the Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 turboprop plane, run by Colgan Air for Continental, which crashed about five minutes before it was due to land in Buffalo, New York from Newark, New Jersey. Despite the massive heat and wall of flames created by the crash, no other houses in the neighborhood sustained any damage, officials said. 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