DC PLANE CRASH LAST: BLACK BOX FROM ARMY BLACK HAWK HELICOPTER REENDED FROM THE WRONG AS OFFER NAMED

The bodies of two soldiers have been recovered from the wreck of the black hawk helicopter that collided with an American Airlines -Jet Wednesday night, CBS NEWS Reports.

The bodies that investigators identified as a man and a woman were recovered yesterday, reports the outlets.

Three people were aboard the helicopter when it crashed. Two of them have been identified: Staff Sgt. Ryan O’Hara and Chief Warrant Officer 2 Andrew Eaves. Army officials have refused to release the third person’s identity.

It is believed that the organs recovered yesterday belong to Eaves and the third person on board when O’Hara’s body was recovered earlier this week, according to CBS.

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Investigators are working this weekend to download data from the three black boxes recovered from the wreck of the crash.

Restore herds found a black box for the Black Hawk helicopter on Friday, while the other two belonged to the American Airlines Jet.

Investigators also expect a “full download” from Jet’s Flight Data Recorder, said board member of National Transport Safety Board Todd Inman.

All 67 people on both aircraft are assumed to die after the helicopter and jet collided across the Potomac River in Washington, DC near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday night.

Recovery herds have found at least 41 bodies from Saturday morning.

The black Hawk helicopter, which collided with a passenger jet in Washington on Wednesday, was on a training flight along a route core to a rarely discussed military mission to evacuate senior officials in safety in the event of an attack on the United States, officials say.

The military mission, known as “continuity of government” and “continuity of operations”, is intended to preserve the US government’s ability to operate.

Most days, crews are transporting crews like the one killed on Wednesday, VIPs around Washington, as buzzing with helicopter traffic.

But US defense secretary Pete Hegeth revealed the Black Hawk Crew’s ties to the mission during a press conference in the White House on Thursday and said they “were on a routine, annual re -training of night flights on a standard corridor for a continuity of the government mission.”

Still discussing a bit of such missions in public.

The three soldiers killed in the collision were part of the 12th Aviation Battalion in Fort Belvoir in Virginia, whose responsibility in a national crisis includes evacuating Pentagon officials. Another 64 people were killed in the passenger plane.

Creation efforts are going on for dozens of bodies in the Potomac River, where the remains of the American Airlines Flight and the US Army Black Hawk Helicopter are after the disaster on January 29.

Officials in the United States have tried to reassure citizens that flights are safe. Transport secretary Sean Duffy insisted that passengers should “secure” that flight is a safe mode of transport at a press conference on Thursday morning.

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Jo Ellis’ service in Virginia National Guard seems to be nothing but honorable.

She served in Iraq as a helicopter door shooter, then in Kuwait as part of the multinational fight against the Islamic State. And in 2023, with the support of her commanders, she began medically switching to female.

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The accident has shone a focus on concerns about air safety and a lack of tower controls in the heavily overloaded airport serving the US capital.

Faa are about 3,000 controllers behind the staffing goals. The agency said in 2023 that it had 10,700 certified controllers, about the same as years earlier.

A controller rather than two handled local aircraft and helicopter traffic on Wednesday at the airport, a situation considered “not normal” but is considered sufficient for lower amounts of traffic, according to a person who was informed of the case. Duffy promised on Thursday to reform few.

Airspace is crowded around the Washington area, home to three commercial airports, several military bases and some senior officials ferryed around by helicopter.

Over a period of three years ending in 2019, there were an average of 80 helicopter flights a day within 48 km from Reagan National Airport, with the majority either military or law enforcement flights, according to a government’s government report from the Government of the Government for the government.

The plane came down right after 7 p.m. 18 local time near Roosevelt Mall and injured several homes and vehicles. Shocking footage showed a large fungal fireball shooting in the sky.

The city’s law enforcement quickly declared the crash of a “major incident” and urged residents to stay away from the area.

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Elizabeth Anne Keys, a lawyer, had traveled to Wichita on a business trip and was worried that she might not be able to celebrate her 33rd birthday back in Washington with her long -time partner, David Seidman.

But her work meeting wrapped in time to spare so she could catch the flight on her birthday and make plans for the couple to get drinks late that night, Seidman said.

Keys, a resident of Cincinnati, and Seidman, from New York, met as lawyer student at Washington’s Georgetown University. The capital became their city and Keys were infinitely energetic as they explored it together.

She played saxophone, oboe and fagot in high school and was on the sailing team in college. She loved to take skiing out west, wander in Hawaii and entertain friends around the fireplace at home, her family said.

Seidman said he never had skiing until she encouraged him to give it a shot. She would try golf next time and they planned to take lessons. “That’s so for everything,” he said. “She was nonstop all the time.”