Audio not recorded on doomed Australia flight with 4 Austin-area men on board

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A cockpit voice recorder failed to capture audio of the doomed flight of a light plane that crashed into the roof of an Australian shopping mall last month killing a pilot and four American tourists, accident investigators said Wednesday.
Australian pilot Max Quartermain, 63, radioed “Mayday” seven times, but did not explain the emergency before the twin-engine Beechcraft King Air B200 plunged into the Direct Factory Outlet mall in the Melbourne subur