Black boxes found as officers check the lack of staff in DC plane crash

The black box for a commercial flight crashed in a military helicopter at Washington DC, the staff at the airport and other close calls, are located as Mounts, where the aircraft was landing.

Generally two people manage air traffic control for helicopters and airplanes flying in the area – one of the most controlled airplanes in the world – but only one person on duty at Regan Washington National Airport on Wednesday at the time of accident Was, at the time of the accident, BBC American partner cited by CBS News.

Officials said they are still investigating the cause of the incident, which is suspected of killing all 67 people in two aircraft.

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said that preliminary report will be released in 30 days.

Flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder, known as a black box, can help investigators clues What can be wrong on flight,

According to CBS, the box will be taken to the NTSB lab near the site of the accident, and analyzed.

According to an early Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) report, the Air Traffic Control Staffing Number, earlier reported by the New York Times, was noted as “not normal”.

The divers on Thursday spent swimming through icy water of the Potomac River, searching for the remaining bodies of most victims.

Due to dangerous conditions, the search was suspended on Thursday evening.

There were 64 passengers in the American Airlines flight that collided with an army black hawk helicopter which was on a training mission flight. Three military were on the board.

Nobody suspects Survived,

DC Fire and EMS head John Donley earlier said on Thursday that teams had so far recovered 27 bodies from the aircraft, and by a helicopter.

On Thursday, at the White House Briefing, President Donald Trump prayed for a moment of silence and the victims.

He said “We can only start imagining the pain you all feel”, “Our hearts are scattered with us”.

Trump then guessed Due to the conflict, pointing to the fact that the standards run by Democrats may be at least one factor for air traffic controllers in the federal aviation administration.

Later on Thursday, he signed a memorandum to abolish diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) practices in the aviation sector. Broadly, DEI policies are designed to create people of different backgrounds-including socio-economic classes, breed, gender and physical abilities-converted, welcome and safe.

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

The deadly incident occurred on Wednesday at around 21:00 local time (02:00 GMT), when a PSA Airlines Jet was acting as American Airlines 5342, which collided with a US army helicopter as it Ronald Reagan contacted Washington National Airport.

Both aircraft took to the Potomac River. The passenger aircraft broke into several pieces and drowned several feet in the water, while the helicopter turned upside down in the river.

Aircraft, a Bombardier CRJ700, Wichita, Kansas left, and was carrying Dozens of passengers16 -year -old skaters, including their mothers and a pair of two Russian coaches.

Kremlin spokesman Dimitri Peskov was quoted in the Russia media, saying: “Others were among our fellow citizens. It is bad news from Washington today.

“We are sorry and send our condolences to families and friends.”

The helicopter was a Sikorsky H -60, who attended the board with three soldiers from Fort Belveer in Virginia, and B Company belonged to the 12th Aviation Battalion.

Speaking on Wednesday night, newlywed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said: “This is a tragedy, that citizen airline has a terrible loss of life for those 64 souls, and of course three soldiers in that black hawk (helicopter) Are.”