WASHINGTON, Nov 12: The flight data recorder, or black box, from the American Airlines jet that crashed in New York City Monday has been recovered, National Transportation Safety Board Chairwoman Marion Blakey said.

Blakey said she did not know exactly where the recorder had been found but said wreckage from the Airbus A300 was “scattered over a wide area” in the Queens, New York neighborhood where the plane went down.

The recorder was to be sent to Washington for analysis, she said.

Blakey added that the US Coast Guard had reported finding large pieces of wreckage in nearby Jamaica Bay.

New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani told reporters later that a wing of the doomed flight 587, en route from John F Kennedy International Airport to the Dominican Republic, had been found in the bay.

Between 60 and 100 NTSB investigators were converging on the crash site, Blakey said.—AFP