The black box of a commercial airliner that nose-dived into a Buffalo house in New York has been retrieved, about 15 hours after the incident.
The flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder "have been found and they are on their way back here," said Ted Lopatkiewicz a spokesman for the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), AFP reported on Friday.
The body said it did not know how much information could be retrieved from the devices. "That depends on what condition they are in," Lopatkiewicz said.
All the 48 people aboard died in the incident earlier in the day which involved a Continental Airlines' Dash 8 Q400 aircraft.
The victims included Beverly Eckert, a woman who had lost his husband Sean Rooney during the September 11, 2001 attacks on the city.
The crash also killed one person who was in the house in the Clarence Center on which the plane came down before skimming over a couple of residences, media reports.
The aircraft had departed from Newark, New Jersey and crashed at about 10:20 p.m. local time.
US President Barack Obama has offered his condolences to the survivors.
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