Black boxes recovered from plane in deadly American Airlines crash near DC

National Transportation Safety Board says it volition ‘leave nary chromatic unturned’ successful probe of midair collision.

Investigators successful the United States person located the achromatic boxes from the American Airlines pitchy that crashed into a US Army chopper adjacent Washington, DC, sidesplitting each 67 radical connected board.

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) connected Friday said it recovered the formation information and cockpit dependable recorders from the Bombardier CRJ700 pitchy that collided with a Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk chopper implicit Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

“The recorders are astatine the NTSB labs for evaluation,” the bureau said successful a station connected X.

NTSB Chairman Jennifer Homendy earlier told reporters that the bureau would “leave nary chromatic unturned” successful its probe into the accident, the archetypal deadly clang involving a US commercialized airliner successful much than 15 years.

“We are going to behaviour a thorough probe of this full tragedy, looking astatine the facts,” Homendy said.

The announcement comes aft US President Donald Trump drew ire for claiming that diversity, equity and inclusion policies (DEI) astatine the Federal Aviation Administration whitethorn person been to blasted for the disaster.

“These are not radical who should beryllium doing this peculiar job,” Trump said astatine a quality conference, without specifying whom helium was referring to.

“We privation superb radical doing this. This is simply a large chess crippled astatine the highest level.”

Asked by a newsman however helium could gully a nexus betwixt the clang and DEI policies erstwhile investigations were not complete, Trump said helium had “common sense”.

Trump’s comments prompted condemnation from Democrats and disablement rights groups, including the National Disability Rights Network, which branded his connection “irresponsible, disparaging, and wrong”.

Pete Buttigieg, who served arsenic proscription caput nether erstwhile US President Joe Biden, called the comments “despicable”.

“As families grieve, Trump should beryllium leading, not lying. We enactment information first, drove down adjacent calls, grew Air Traffic Control, and had zero commercialized hose clang fatalities retired of millions of flights connected our watch,” Buttigieg said connected X.

[Al Jazeera]

Before the scheduled landing of American Airlines craft Flight 5342 astatine Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport connected Wednesday, aerial postulation controllers asked the pilots if they could onshore connected Runway 33, and formation tracking sites showed that they adjusted their formation way to conscionable the request.

Less than 30 seconds earlier the midair collision, an aerial postulation controller asked the unit of the service chopper if it could spot the approaching plane.

The clang was the archetypal deadly incidental involving a US commercialized hose since 2009, erstwhile Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashed into a location adjacent Buffalo, New York, sidesplitting each 49 radical connected committee and 1 idiosyncratic connected the ground.

Authorities person truthful acold recovered astir 40 bodies from the Potomac River.

While officials person not released a afloat database of the victims, they see 2 erstwhile satellite champion fig skaters, 2 Chinese nationals, a radical of friends who had been connected a duck-hunting trip, and the crews of the 2 aircraft.

Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, located successful Arlington, Virginia, is the closest airdrome to Washington, DC, situated little than 8km (5 miles) from the US capital.

The airdrome is fashionable with galore travellers due to the fact that of its proximity to Washington, DC compared with the larger Dulles International Airport, which is astir 37km (23 miles) further away.

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