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Black boxes found as airport staffing probed

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Brandon Drinon

BBC News, Washington

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The black boxes of a commercial trip crashed a military helicopter in Washington, DC, as questions about employment and other calls nearby at the airport, where the plane landed.

Two people are usually running the air traffic control of the helicopter and aircraft that fly in the region – one of the most controlled air spaces in the world – but there was only one person at Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday at the time of the accident, according to the sources that a partner cited American BBC CBS News.

Officials said they were still investigating the cause of the accident, all of whom were killed, all of whom were killed on the plane.

The National Transport Safety Council (NTSB) said that an initial report will be issued within 30 days.

The trip registrar and audio recorder in the cockpit, known as black boxes, can help provide evidence for investigators What may be a mistake in the trip.

The boxes will be transferred to the NTSB laboratory, near the accident site, and analyzed, according to CBS.

The numbers of air traffic monitoring employees, which the New York Times reported for the first time as “abnormal”, was observed, according to a preliminary report of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

The divers spent most of Thursday swimming through the ice water of the Botomac River, where they looked for the remaining bodies of the victims.

The search was suspended Thursday evening, due to the dangerous circumstances.

There were 64 passengers on the US Airways flight that collided with the Black Hawk helicopter in the army was on a training flight. He was three soldiers on board.

No one is suspected of being Survive.

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DC Fire and EMS President John Donlley said earlier on Thursday that the teams have so far regained 27 bodies from the plane, and one of the helicopters.

In the White House on Thursday, President Donald Trump began a moment of silence and prayer for the victims.

He said, “We can only start imagining the suffering you feel all,” adding, “Our hearts have shattered by your side.”

Then Trump speculated On the reason for the collision, the signal is without evidence that low employment standards for air traffic controllers in the Federal Aviation Administration during the previous departments run by Democrats may be a worker.

Later on Thursday, a memorandum was signed to end the practices of diversity, shares and integration (Dei) in the aviation sector. On a large scale, DEI policies are designed to make people from different backgrounds-including the social and economic class, race, sex and physical ability-they feel support, welcome and safe.

Trump also signed an executive order to appoint a new FAA president.

The deadly accident occurred at approximately 21:00 local time (02:00 GMT) on Wednesday, when a PSA aircraft plane operating as 5342 US air lines collided with an American army helicopter with Ronald Reagan Washington’s National Airport approaching.

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Both aircraft were in the Botomac River. The passenger plane stormed multiple pieces and sank several feet in the water, while the helicopter ended upside down in the river.

The plane, which was a CRJ700 bomb, left Witchita, Kansas, and was carrying Dozens of passengersIncluding a husband of 16 -year -old skiers, their mothers and Russian coaches.

“There were others from our citizens on the plane. It is bad news today from Washington,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov in the Russian media.

“We regret and send our condolences to families and friends.”

The helicopter was Sikorsky H-60, which took off from Fort Balfwar in Virginia with three soldiers on board, and belongs to B.C., the twelfth aviation battalion.

Speaking on Wednesday night, the newly installed defense minister said Higseth’s house: “It is a tragedy, and a horrific loss in the lives of those 64 lives on that civil aviation, and of course the three soldiers in those hawks Black Hawk [helicopter]”

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2025-01-31 02:47:00

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