Learjet crash: Part of plane found miles from crash site

A piece of the private jet that crashed in south Florida over the weekend was found miles from the crash site. Read more trending news Officials said a portion of the left tail elevator was found in three pieces, one of which was four miles from the crash site, The New York Times reported. The part controls the plane’s angle, which National Transportation Safety Board member Thomas Chapman called a “very important piece of evidence.”It is not known if it broke off before the plane started falling or after. “What that means exactly, in terms of what caused the aircraft to lose control, or whether the loss of this piece was a result of the forces on the aircraft, we don’t know yet,” Chapman said, according to The Associated Press.Most of the plane’s wreckage was in a crater, but investigators could not access it until public works teams cleared water and other damage caused by the crash. The plane’s cockpit voice recorder has not been recovered. The plane had been outfitted with one, but