The Transportation Safety Board of Canada said last week that recovered materials from the plane revealed that " some of the wiring and structure, located in the ceiling in the vicinity of the cockpit, showed signs of heat damage ."
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Eight hours after the cadets first encountered the crash site, at 2 p . m . on Sunday afternoon, the Coast Guard released the Kings Pointer from the search for victims and wreckage, transferring its lode of recovered material to other ships.
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None of the recovered materials date to the last few centuries before the Spanish conquest, although according to ethnohistorical sources, the Akalaha Maya from the Gulf coast of modern-day Tabasco, Mexico had taken over the region and were producing salt for export.
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When interviewed about the incident decades later, he claimed only a minor role, but he expressed his belief that there was " no chance " senior officers who handled the recovered material, including base commander Blanchard, mistook a weather balloon for a flying saucer.
