Helicopter Black Box Restored From Washington DC Plane Crash Site

Officials have recovered the cockpit voice recorder – also known as Black Box – from the helicopter involved in the aircraft accident that killed 67 people in Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday.

Emergency persons are planning to increase operations this weekend to restore the waste from the site.

There were 64 passengers aboard an American Airlines flight when it collided with an army black Hawk helicopter with three soldiers.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has since limited helicopter traffic around the airport after concern from officials about overcrowding in the airspace over the head.

From Friday, 28 people from the crash had been identified and 41 bodies had been extracted from the water.

The rest of the bodies do not exist until officials are able to raise the plane out of the riverbed, officials have said.

Investigators restored the black boxes from the wreck of the passenger plane the day after the collision.

After soft in the black boxes and extracting the moisture from them, they will be able to get data from the recorders “very soon,” the national member of the national transport security member Todd Inman told journalists on Friday night.

“We just have to work through a number of steps,” said Mr Inman.

NTSB members said they still do not know the cause of the collision.

Mr. Inman said “headlifting” of the rescue operations, which will be performed by the US Navy, will begin on Saturday.

Parts of the aircraft must be removed from the water before divers can go back in.

Authorities plan to map the waste in the river so that they can better understand how the aircraft reacted to the collision.

The work of removing large segments of the plane from the water at crane starts on Sunday and will continue all week, said Mr Inman.

Over 500 people have worked around the clock around the site of the crash in the Potomac River, Washington DC said four chief John Donnelly.

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He did not comment on details, but said that officials are planning to investigate the controller’s behavior in the last several weeks and especially the 72 hours before the crash.

“Obviously, we look at not only staff that day … (but also) how many people, what jobs work they have done they will be combined.”

The air traffic management group is still conducting interviews.

Mr. Inman was also asked if his team is in contact with the White House.

President Donald Trump has without proof that the helicopter involved in the crash flies too high. “

Recordings of air traffic management talks published online suggested that a controller was trying to warn the helicopter about the American Airlines aircraft in seconds before the collision.

The helicopter pilot seemed to answer to confirm that they were aware of the aircraft, but moments later collided the two aircraft.

Trump has also said suggested that hiring diversity at FAA may have led to security issues.

“Our job is to find facts,” said Mr Inman. “More important is that our job is to make sure this tragedy does not happen again – no matter what anyone may say.”