Investigators Locate Plane's CVR

As crews continued to pull pieces of wreckage from Lake Michigan following the downing of a Lifeflight Citation bizjet Monday, doctors treating the man who had been waiting for the lungs being transported onboard that plane announced he received a second set of organs Thursday.

The unidentified 50-year-old man had already been prepped for the double lung transplant surgery when the Cessna Citation 550 departed Milwaukee's Mitchell International Airport Monday afternoon, for the planned 42-minute flight to Willow Run Airport, near Ypsilanti, MI.

When surgeons received word the plane carrying two pilots, four University of Michigan Health Center transplant specialists, and the original transplant organs crashed into the water, the hospital cancelled the operation -- leaving the man in critical condition, and facing an even more uncertain future.

"He walked in the hospital breathing on his own," said Dr. Andrew C. Chang, surgical director of lung transplant and assistant professor of general thoracic surgery, to The Associated Press. "After the operation, he was in critical condition and on a ventilator."

The man -- said to be a longtime smoker and suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder, who had been on the transplant list since November -- was moved up higher on the transplant list after the original surgery was cancelled. A second set of donor organs became available Wednesday evening.

As ANN reported, investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board are focusing their search for clues in the accident to the pilot's reports of trim runway, called into controllers at MKE shortly after takeoff.

NTSB spokesman Keith Holloway said divers had recovered the Citation's cockpit voice recorder Friday, and located a debris field containing much of the plane's wreckage.

The larger pieces of the downed plane will be pulled up next week, he told the Detroit Free-Press.

FMI: www.ntsb.gov, www.umich.edu