A lot of elements of the American Airways airplane that collided with a U.S. Military helicopter have now been lifted from the Potomac River.
The Nationwide Transportation Security Board introduced on Monday, Feb. 3 that they’d “recovered the aft fuselage, right engine and right pylon” of the jet.
At a information briefing, Colonel Frank Pera of the U.S. Military Corps of Engineers Baltimore district mentioned that efforts to take away extra items of the wreckage, together with from the Black Hawk helicopter, will proceed, however that the complete course of will doubtless take a number of days, in response to NBC News.
“The extent of coordination each behind the scenes and out on the Potomac is outstanding,” added Baltimore District Commander Col. Francis Pera “We have now not and won’t lose focus of what’s most vital — the security of our crews and accounting for these nonetheless lacking to deliver closure to their households and family members.”
Moreover, the NTSB mentioned investigators have “obtained coaching and flight logs for each flight crews and upkeep logs” for each of the aircrafts — and so they’re at the moment working to “synchronize flight knowledge recorder and cockpit voice recorder knowledge.”
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American Airways Flight 5342 was making its descent from Wichita, Kan., into Reagan Nationwide Airport round 9 p.m. native time Wednesday, Jan. 29, when it collided with a U.S. Military Black Hawk helicopter. The crash resulted in an explosion, and the airplane plummeted into the river under.
Three individuals have been contained in the helicopter whereas 64 individuals — together with 60 passengers and 4 crew members — have been on the airplane. For the reason that morning after the crash, Chief of DC Fireplace and EMS John A. Donnelly Sr. has mentioned his workforce doesn’t consider there are any survivors.
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Over the weekend, Donnelly mentioned that the our bodies of 41 victims had already been recovered from the water, however that to be able to discover the entire victims, they’d want to maneuver the airplane out of the water. As of Feb. 3, the variety of victims whose our bodies have been recovered and positively recognized has grown to 55, in response to The New York Times.
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The collision marks the deadliest U.S. air catastrophe since November 2001 when American Airways Flight 587 crashed in Belle Harbor, Queens, killing all 260 individuals onboard and 5 individuals on the bottom.
