US authorities had no unusual communications from an American Airlines jet that crashed on Monday and the federal government is investigating the crash as an accident, the White House said.

“Still, because early data can turn out to be wrong, We have not ruled anything in, not ruled anything out,” spokesman Ari Fleischer told reporters at a hastily arranged briefing at the White House.
The National Transportation Safety Board is the lead investigating agency Into what brought down the airbus a-300, which was carrying 246 passengers and nine crew, he said.
Bush expressed to both of them his deepest sympathy for the people of New York to be enduring any other such trauma at a time when New York has already gone through so much, he said.
Bureau Report