The mid-day press briefing was about victims. Summit County Medical Examiner Dr. Lisa Kohler verified the number, but said forensic studies are still underway to identify individual remains. 

A 3 p.m., Bella Dinh-Zarr, vice-chair of the National Transportation Safety Board, took to the podium to tell reporters the plane’s black boxes are on the way to a Washington, D.C. lab -- and that some important crash-related evidence has been isolated.

“We interviewed the pilot who approached and landed just prior to the failed approach by the accident aircraft. We have also reviewed a security camera video that shows the aircraft at a low attitude and banking to the left seconds before it crashed.”

She said weather will be an important part of the investigation. 

Both officials said it will take days to complete the investigative process.