"It seems like it was really convenient for them to be a Louisville partner and citizen until we decided to sue them and want to put them in front of a Louisville jury."

 Federal law prohibits the NTSB from publicly releasing cockpit voice recordings because of the sensitive nature of the audio.

Jessica Deis and flight instructor Evan Peele were on the plane when it experienced engine trouble on a training flight and lost power Friday, leading to the crash. 

It happened about 6 p.m. off East Highway 22 in Owenton, about 80 miles east of Louisville.

The August 2019 accident killed one person and destroyed five nearby homes in Lincoln County.

The crash killed pilot Andrew Davis, architect Wayne Estopinal and marketing executive Sandra Johnson.

Federal accident investigators still can't say what caused a deadly pipeline blast in central Kentucky.

A cockpit voice recorder transcript shows the pilots of a UPS cargo jet that crashed last August complained of tiring work schedules that don't allow enough time for sleep at the start of the fatal flight.

NTSB Chairman Deborah Hersman says that standard has substantially reduced highway deaths in other countries.