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Two “black boxes” have been recovered from the US airline’s regional jet after its deadly collision with an army Black Hawk helicopter on Wednesday night, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.
A cockpit voice recorder and a flight data recorder have been taken for laboratory analysis, an NTSB spokesman said. The investigating agency previously promised to “let no stones be turned” in his investigation. Whether human or mechanical factors contributed to the crash leaving all 67 passengers and herd dead are not yet clear, officials said.
A preliminary report from the Federal Aviation Administration found that staff at Ronald Reagan Airport air traffic control tower were “not normal” at the time of the deadly collision between the aircraft.
The internal report that was released Thursday and reviewed by New York Times, said Due to understaffing, the controller worked the job for two people the night of the crash: Handling helicopters at the vicinity of the airport, while also instructing aircraft that landed and gave up from its runways.
On a press release hours earlier, President Donald Trump connected FAA’s diversity, equity and inclusion policies and the bite administration to the incident.
Crane used to remove parts of the Baltimore bridge that is brought to the help of the crash site
A crane used to remove parts of Francis Scott Key Bridge, after collapsing March 2024, in Baltimore, Maryland, brought in to help with recovery efforts in Washington DC
Team brings an American coastguard crane to the Potomac River to help reach victims that are in a section of the wreck that divers cannot come, a law enforcement source told CNN.
The crane is already on its way from Baltimore and will be used to cut and lift pieces of the aircraft to allow divers to safely recover additional victims, CNN reported.
Mike Medigan31 January 2025 08:00
Helicopter may not have been on approved Flyvevej, according to the report
The Black Hawk helicopter, which collided with the passenger jet during the DC air disaster on Wednesday night, may not have traveled along its approved flight road, the New York Times has reported.
According to sources talking to Masthead, the helicopter should fly in another place and lower to the ground as it crossed Reagan National Airspace.
Masthead reported that more people with knowledge of the investigation said the helicopter, who carries three people, flew too high and outside its approved path.
Angus Thompson31 January 2025 07:23
China offers compassion for Washington over air disaster
China offered deep compassion for Washington Air Disaster, the country’s Foreign Ministry said in a post Friday on its official site.
The post added that two Chinese citizens were killed in the crash and China provides help with their relatives.
Angus Thompson31 January 2025 07:10
GOP Senator Ripper Trump’s fault in DEI programs for DC crashes
Senator Lisa Murkowski torn President Donald Trump’s comments accusing disability and diversity employment of the aircraft helicopter accident.
Alaska Republican’s words come after Trump accused diversity, justice and inclusion practice of the crash near Reagan National Airport, killing 67 people. Specifically, the President Federal Aviation criticized the administration recruitment program for people with intellectual disabilities.
Murkowski told The independent Exclusive that she felt awful for the families and everyone involved.
“I don’t know about you but when I saw when I saw the news of the crash last night and just wake up this morning and watch the orientation just goes out, not only to the families who lost dear but to all , there was part of it, ”she said.
“Think of just heartache of all this,” she said. “So to see such a statement, where, without full, without full information about what happened, except for a massive accident, to imply that it was, it should owe due to diversity rental, I think, I think, I think, Does not project the level of empathy that we have to show to those who lost their loved ones.
Mike Medigan31 January 2025 07:00
Governor Brian Kemp sends compassion to families of ‘young Georgians’ killed in crash
Georgia -Governor Brian Kemp sent his “deepest compassion: to families and friends of Ryan O’Hara and Sam Lilley, who both died in Wednesday’s collisions.
“Both of these young Georgians shared a passion for flight and to serve others, and this horrible tragedy is that much more difficult to know that their lives were cut so unexpectedly short,” Kemp wrote on X.
“Marty, the girls, and I ask that all Georgians join us to keep their loved ones in our thoughts and prayers.”
O’Hara was part of the crew of the helicopter while Lilly piloted the passenger plane.
Mike Medigan31 January 2025 06:00
Civil Rights Attorney, 30, named among victims of passenger jet
A young civil rights lawyer on his way home to Washington DC from Kansas was among the 64 people who died on the passenger plane.
Kiah Duggins, 30, worked as a lawyer for Civil Rights Corps. She had been to Wichita to be with her mother during a surgical procedure, according to KMUW.
Duggins’ family members confirmed to sales on Thursday that she was aboard the flight.
Her father, Maurice Duggins, said in a statement: “We are expressed with the grief associated with the loss of our beautiful and talented firstborn. Please respect our family’s privacy at this time. “
Mike Medigan31 January 2025 05:30
Recordings showing American Airlines -Flying in the Potomac River
Mike Medigan31 January 2025 04:45
More almost missing with helicopters reported on DCA before crash
More people almost deficiencies involving helicopters near DCA had been recorded in the three years before Wednesday’s deadly crash, CNN reports.
Federal incident reports reviewed by the outlets showed at least two other pilots reported almost deficiencies with helicopters while landing at the airport.
On two occasions, in April 2024 and October 2022 respectively, passenger aircraft had to take evasive actions to avoid colliding by a helicopter, according to reports filed by pilots.
In a third incident in September 2022, two military helicopters came too close to each other, an air traffic controller reported.
Mike Medigan31 January 2025 04:20
Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding respond to the deaths of ice skates in DC -Flying accident
Skating Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding have given emotional reactions to the devastating deaths for fellow figures in the Washington DC airline accident.
Mike Medigan31 January 2025 04:00
‘You want me to swim?’: Trump says he doesn’t want to visit DC airline accident because it’s ‘The Water’
Donald Trump answered sarcastically to questions about whether he would visit the site of the deadly crash over the Potomac River in Washington DC and ask journalists in the White House: “Do you want me to swim?”
The president said on Thursday he would meet with some of the families to the victims of the tragedy that took place at Ronald Reagan Airport on Wednesday night. All 67 people involved in the crash are believed to have died, authorities said earlier.
Mike Medigan31 January 2025 03:32
