The search and rescue team works in the aftermath of the collision of the Black Hawk helicopter that collided with the US E -Gle -Fight 5342 and the Potomac River.
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Washington -How the Army Black Hawk Helicopter collided American Airlines The jet liner in the CRASH drop in the Potmax River on Wednesday night is still unknown, but there are important questions, including the altitude of military helicopters.
Collision investigators collect flight recorders from Sikorsky H-60 ​​helicopters, and add evidence to include an interview with those who work at the COMBY station and an air control officer, including two recorders from an airplane. Added. Todd Inman, a member of the National Traffic Safety Commission, said on Friday.
Inman stated in briefing that the barge was lifting a large part of the CRJ-700 from the Potomax River on Saturday.
All 64 American Flight 5342 and three helicopters have been killed by a fireball collision near Reagan National Airport in Washington DC, Reagan National Airport in Washington DC, Washington DC.
Fire and EMS Chief John Donnie stated at a Friday press conference that 41 bodies were recovered from the Crash falling. Of these, 28 people are actively identified.
“We are called” Swiss Cheese As Proach “. If something fails, the backup needs to catch it and catch multiple redundancy, “said Inman. “It’s been a very long time since the large -scale aviation in the United States has occurred, so it’s one of the safest transports in Japan.”
PSA Airlines’s Bombardia CRJ-700 aircraft flew about 300 feet in the final approach to Reagan National 33 before 9:00 pm on Wednesday, clashing with Black Hawk Helicopter until 9:00 pm on Wednesday.
PSA Airlines is one of the US subsidiaries flying on routes in areas sold as American Eagle.
The American Eagle 5342 collides with Black Hawk Helicopter, approaches Ronal Dragan Washington National Airport, dropped CRASH on the Potmax River on January 30, 2025, and the US Congress Hall was urgently urgently crashed in the background. The personnel are working.
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Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegouses, said that helicopters were participating in the annual training flight.
According to the Federal Aviation Bureau’s rules, a helicopter that regularly passes Washington between military bases, Pentagon, and other places must fly up to 200 feet near the airport.
“In DC, it’s a kind of unique environment,” said Inman on Thursday’s briefing. He noted that Washington had a helicopter zone or truck. “This was a part of the normal procedure from Truck 1 to 4. If you live in DC, you can see many helicopters coming down to this area, so it is very clear. There is a defined system.
Sean Duffy stated on Friday that the FAA restricted the traffic of helicopters around Reagan National Airport, with some exceptions for medical evacuation and law execution projects.
The airspace is part of the most crowded thing in Japan, and Reagan National says that the main runway is the busiest in the United States.
Although the survey is underway, two of the three runways are closed at the airport because they are close to the crash area. Vice President and Airport Manager Terry Riark said to the press on Friday that they would last about a week.
Airport officials said that more than 100 flights were canceled on Friday, quoting the runway closure and bad weather.
“In order to match the runway, we are running quickly on the runway and focusing on the flight route to stop the airplane,” said John Cox, a retired airline pilot and air safety consultant. 。
NTSB leads to a collision survey of a fireball. The agency stated that it was still collecting information and was too early to draw conclusions.
“I don’t have any information. I have information,” said NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy. “I have a lot of information. I need to verify the information. I need to spend time to confirm that it is accurate.”
NTSB has also recovered from passenger jet and flight data and cockpit audio recorder. An institution said that the box was transported to the NTSB lab for evaluation.
NTSB investigators are working on the American Eagle Flight 5342 Black Box in an unknown place of this unknown distribution material released on January 30, 2025.
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According to President Donald Trump on Friday, the helicopter was “flying too high, it was far exceeding the limit of 200 feet. That was really not complicated, isn’t it really complicated?”
HEGSETH issued a similar statement on Thursday in the White House briefing.
“The tragic mistake was made last night,” he said. “There was an altitude problem that started investigating immediately at the DOD and the Army level.”
Both statements were abnormal due to the early stages of collisions and airline accidents.
The accident has ended a 10 -and -a -half -year air safety period in the United States, which has not seen a fatal commercial crash since 2009, despite the increase in passenger traffic by more than 35 %. The crash promoted harder pilot training and break standards.
The shortage of air traffic controllers has been concerned for many years, and a close call at airports in the United States has caused scrutiny from members and regulatory authorities.
(Editor Note: The image contains graphic content.) According to the US Coast Guard’s distribution material, the coast guards will investigate the aircraft remains on the Washington DC on January 30, 2025 on the Potomac River.
Petitio Fisser 1st Class Brandon Jiles | U.S. Coast Guard | Distribution Materials | Getty Images
According to NBC News reported on Thursday, a spare FAA safety report on collisions, it was unusual for the arrival of the Reagan National at the Reagan National to traffic on the collision night and the night of the crash.
According to the source, the NBC stated that the airport tower has a controller focusing on helicopter traffic, but in the FAA guideline, it can combine that position with another controller position. Some controllers control both airplanes and helicopters. The FAA did not respond to the comments on the report.
NBC NEWS reported on Friday on Friday, quoting a source of information that the Reagan National Tower supervisor of the controller left the shift early.
Inman said on Friday that investigators will look back on the past 72 or weeks of the Air Transport Commander.
“We are seeing their training, employment, all, probably what we ate on that day,” he said. “But that’s not one point to tell us, it’s hierarchical into a lot of other information that is very important.”
