Search and rescue teams operate in the wake of the American Eagle Flight 5342 collision and the Black Hawk helicopter crashed into the Botomac River, with the Capitol dome in the background, as it appears from Virginia, the United States, January 30, 2025.
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How a Black Hawk army helicopter collided with US air aircraft in A. Murderer The Botomac River is still unknown on Wednesday night, but the questions appear, including the height of the military helicopter.
Investigators still recover the evidence from Potomac and look at everything from newly withdrawn airline data and the cockpit recorder. Every 64 people US Airlines Flight 5342 and the three on the helicopter were killed in Ball collision Near Reagan National Airport in Washington, DC, on the occasion of the most US flight crash since 2001.
Fire, EMS team head John Donlley, told a press conference on Friday that forty -one bodies were recovered from the crash site. Of these, 28 were identified positively.
The Psa Airlines Bombardier CRJ-700 flying 300 feet on the final approach at the Reagan National runway 33 before 9 pm EST on Wednesday when it collided with the Black Hawk helicopter.
Psa Airlines is one of the American subsidiaries that fly regional roads, and the airlines are marketed as an American Eagle.
Emergency staff is working near the accident site, where Capitol collided in the United States in the background, after the American Eagle Flight 5342 with a Black Hawk helicopter while approaching Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport and crashed into the Botomac River, January 30, 2025.
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Defense Minister Beit Higseth said the helicopter was on an annual training trip.
According to the rules of the federal aviation administration, the helicopters, which cross regularly through Washington and around the military bases, Pentagon and other sites, must fly in the area near the airport with a maximum of 200 feet.
“In the capital, it is a unique environment.” He pointed out that there are areas of helicopters, or tracks, in Washington. “This one was transmitted from the track one to four as part of the normal procedure. If you live in the capital, you will see many helicopters drop to this field. So there is a good specific system.”
The Federal Aviation Administration will restrict a helicopter movement around the Reagan National Airport area, with some exceptions for medical evacuation and law enforcement operations, Minister of Transport Sean Duffy He said on Friday.
The airspace is some of the most crowded in the country, and the national Reagan says its main runway is the most crowded in the United States
While the investigation is continuing, two of three runways are closed at the airport due to their proximity to the accident area. Terry Lerke, Vice President and Director of the Airport, told the press on Friday that he is expected to continue that closure for about a week.
Airport officials said more than 100 flights were canceled on Friday, citing the closure of the runway and bad weather.
“While it turns into compatibility with the runway, your focus is on the flight path to reach the runway quickly and stop the plane,” said John Cox, a retired airline pilot and aviation safety consultant.
NTSB leads the collision in the collision that ended in a fiery ball. The agency said it is still collecting information and that it is very early to extract conclusions.
“It isn’t that we have no information. We have information,” said Jennifer Humandi, NTSB president. “We have large quantities of information. We need to check the information. We need to spend our time to make sure it is accurate.”
NTSB has been recovered from the flight and cockpit audio recordings from the passenger plane. The agency said that the funds were transferred to NTSB laboratories for evaluation.
(Editors note: The image contains graphic content) In this American Coast Guard bulletin, the Coast Guard is achieved in the wreckage of the planes on the Botomac River on January 30, 2025 in Washington, DC.
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president Donald Trump Friday wrote on Social truth The helicopter “was very high, but it was much higher than the maximum of 200 feet. This is not very complicated to understand, is it ???”
Higseth made a similar statement on the White House on Thursday.
“Last night, a mistake was made,” he said. “There was a kind of rise that we immediately started investigating at the level of the Ministry of Defense and Army.”
It was both the two unusual In the wake of a crash and the early stages of investigation into the airline accident.
The accident ends in a period of time and a half of air safety in the United States, which has not witnessed a deadly trade collapse since 2009, although traffic is more than 25 % to the records. This incident prompted a set of experimental training and comfort standards.
The shortage of air traffic monitors was a source of concern for years, and a group of nearby calls in American airports has extracted auditing from legislators and organizers.
Reagan National Employment was not normal for the amount of traffic and time today on the night of the accident, according to a preliminary safety report in the Federal Aviation Administration on collision, NBC said on Thursday.
Quoted from a source, NBC said that the airport has a console that focuses on helicopter traffic, although FAA’s instructions allow this position to be combined with another control unit position, so one of the control of aircraft and helicopters controls. FAA did not respond to the request to comment on the report.
NBC News reported on Friday, noting a source familiar with the investigation that the supervisor of the National Tower of Reagan for the permitted observer is early.
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