“The CVRs and FDRs from American 11 and United 175” - the two planes that hit the Trade Center - “were not found.” And officials for the FBI - which oversaw the cleanup at Ground Zero - and the New York City Fire Department repeated this week that the devices were never recovered. The “black boxes” - actually orange - could have provided valuable new information about the worst terror attack to ever take place on American soil. “It's extremely rare that we don't get the recorders back. I can't recall another domestic case in which we did not recover the recorders,” Ted Lopatkiewicz, spokesman for the National Transportation Safety Board, told CBS News in 2002. However, officials said little of the jets was recovered.
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