Black boxes found as survey airport staff

The black boxes for a commercial flight that crashed into a military helicopter in Washington DC have been located as the questions about the staff and other close calls in the airport where the plane landed.

Normally, two people handle air traffic control for helicopters and aircraft that fly in the area, one of the most controlled air spaces in the world, but only one person was on the National Airport of Regan Washington on Wednesday at the time of the Accident, according to sources cited by the American partner of the BBC CBS News.

The authorities said they are still investigating the cause of the incident that is suspected that killed the 67 people aboard the two planes.

The National Transportation Security Board (NTSB) said a preliminary report will be issued in 30 days.

The flight data recorder and the voice recorder of the cabin, known as the black boxes, can help offer clues to researchers about What could have gone badly on the flight.

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

The number of air traffic control personnel, first informed by the New York Times, was observed as “non -normal”, according to a preliminary report by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

The divers spent most of the Thursday swimming through the frozen waters of the Potomac River, looking for the remaining victims bodies.

The search was suspended on Thursday night, due to dangerous conditions.

There were 64 passengers aboard American Airlines that collided with a Black Hawk army helicopter that was on a flight of the training mission. Three soldiers were on board.

It is suspected that nobody has survived.

DC Fire and EMS’s boss, John Donnelly, said the teams had recovered 27 bodies from the plane, and one from the helicopter.

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

He said: “We can only begin to imagine the agony that everyone is feeling,” and added: “Our hearts our destroyed next to yours.”

Trump then speculated On the cause of the collision, indicate without evidence that perhaps the lowest hiring standards for air traffic drivers in the Federal Aviation Administration during the previous administrations administered by the Democrats may have been a factor.

Later, on Thursday, he signed a memorandum to end the practices of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in the aviation sector. In general terms, Dei’s policies are designed to make people of various origins, including socioeconomic class, race, gender capacity and physics, feel supported, welcome and safe.

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

The fatal incident occurred around 9:00 p.m. (02:00 GMT) on Wednesday, when a PSA Airlines plane operates like American Airlines 5342 crashed in the air with a helicopter of the US army Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

Both aircraft got into the Potomac River. The passenger plane broke into multiple pieces and sank several feet in the water, while the helicopter ended upside down in the river.

The plane, a Crj700 Bombardier, left Wichita, Kansas, and carried dozens of passengersincluding a couple of 16 -year -old skaters, their mothers and two Russian coaches.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was summoned in Russia’s media saying: “There were other fellow citizens on board. Today they are bad news from Washington.

“We feel it and send our condolences to families and friends.”

The helicopter was a Sikorsky H-60 ​​who took off Fort Belvoir in Virginia with three soldiers on board, and belonged to B Company, 12th Aviation Battalion.

Speaking on Wednesday night, the newly installed Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said: “It is a tragedy, a horrible loss of lives for those 64 souls in that civil plane and, of course, the three soldiers in that black hawk (helicopter) ”