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Old 16th Aug 2016, 22:42
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Shortly after the incident it was said a preliminary report on the cause would come out "in August." I've checked periodically, the only news I've seen is the release of the radio traffic audio. The raw audio is very poor, long periods of loud buzzing with brief bits of unintelligible and barely intelligible speech. According to published reports, the part of interest goes like this:

"Turner said his jet was having engine problems. About 10 seconds later, he said, 'I'm putting it away from somebody's house here. I'm getting out.'"

I could not make out the first part, where he's talking about the problem, but the quoted part seems accurate. Kudos to Maj. Turner for taking the time to avoid those houses.
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