MONTROSE, Colo., Nov. 30 (UPI) -- The body of NBC Sports chairman Dick Ebersol's 14-year-old son has been retrieved from beneath the wreckage of a jet that crashed in Colorado.
The body of Edward Ebersol was found Monday after a 24-hour search as investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board arrived in Montrose, Colo., and began to take charge of the investigation.
Investigators said they were looking at whether ice may have formed on the Challenger 601 aircraft before takeoff or whether the jet may have hydroplaned on a slushy runway, The Denver Post said Tuesday.
Ebersol, 57, and another son, Charlie, 21, were injured and hospitalized in Grand Junction. They are expected to recover, NBC reported. The crash also killed pilot Luis Alberto Polanco Espaillat, 50, and flight attendant Warren T. Richardson III, 36.
The plane's co-pilot, Eric Wicksell, was listed in critical condition at Denver Health Medical Center.
Investigators found the cockpit voice recorder and were shipping it to Washington for analysis, said NTSB's Arnold Scott, who is heading the agency's probe. He said the plane had no flight-data recorder.
