Live Updates: Crews Search for survivors after a passenger jet and a black Haukhelicopter collided near DC

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January 30, 2025 at. 06:43 Est

National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), the independent federal agency who is tasked with investigating civilian transport accidents, said right after midnight That it had launched a “go-team” for the DC incident.

Investigators would arrive on stage overnight, it added.

NTSB Defines a “GO -Team” As a group of technical experts needed to solve complex transport safety problems, led by a senior investigator. Agency specialists have a “rotation task” to respond as soon as possible on stage with an accident, it says.

“During their time on the duty trotation, members must be reached 24 hours a day,” says their site. “Most GO team members do not have a suitcase packed because there is no way to know if the scene of the accident will be in Florida or Alaska, but they have tools for their trade and necessary safety equipment such as hard hats, goggles, steel Toed Shoes.