DC plane crash wreckage to be removed beginning Monday, 12 bodies yet to be recovered

Wreckage from the deadly midair collision adjacent Reagan National Airport volition commencement to beryllium removed from the Potomac River Monday greeting arsenic officials said they person yet to find 12 of the victims. 

The collision betwixt a Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk chopper and a Bombardier CRJ700 airliner operating nether PSA Airlines, a subsidiary of American Airlines, connected Wednesday nighttime near 67 dead. D.C. Fire and EMS Chief John Donnelly, Sr. told reporters Sunday that the remains of 55 victims person been identified, arsenic the betterment effort continues.

"We judge we're going to beryllium capable to retrieve each of the victims. But no, we don't cognize wherever they each are astatine this point," Donnelly said up of Monday’s operation. 

Col. Francis Pera from the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers said helium anticipates "a palmy lift," noting they volition screen the wreckage with a structure to support immoderate quality remains. 

55 VICTIMS IN WASHINGTON, DC MIDAIR COLLISION PULLED FROM POTOMAC RIVER 

Wreckage is seen successful the Potomac River adjacent Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, connected Thursday, Jan. 30.  (Petty Officer 1st Class Brandon Giles, U.S. Coast Guard via AP)

"We bash person a process wherever we volition beryllium watching the assistance arsenic it happens," Pera explained. "And past if determination are remains successful there, that volition not determination portion we're recovering the wreckage. We volition bring that wreckage to the aboveground of the barge. Our process [is] to instantly structure the barge to marque definite that we person afloat discretion." 

"When we statesman the assistance process tomorrow, our extremity is to truly assistance arsenic overmuch arsenic we tin – fixed the information that we are besides accounting for the quality remains constituent – and past our extremity is to past transportation that, those pieces of instrumentality implicit to a flatbed trailer that volition present instrumentality it implicit to a designated hangar, truthful that the probe tin begin," helium added. 

THIRD SOLDIER INSIDE BLACK HAWK HELICOPTER INVOLVED IN DC MIDAIR COLLISION IDENTIFIED 

An American Airlines pitchy passes arsenic household members of the victims of a midair collision betwixt an American Airlines pitchy and an Army chopper basal astatine the extremity of runway 33 adjacent the wreckage tract successful the Potomac River astatine Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, connected Sunday, Feb. 2, successful Arlington, Va.  (AP/Jose Luis Magana)

Pera said divers astatine the tract are equipped with HD cameras, whose feeds are being monitored wrong a enactment boat. 

"So you honestly, you've got 4 oregon 5 sets of eyes looking wrong [the] wreckage astatine the aforesaid time," helium said. 

Pera besides said that "reuniting those mislaid successful the tragic incidental is truly what keeps america each going."

"We've got teams that person been moving this effort since the opening and we're committed to making this happen," helium said.

On Sunday, families of the victims visited the clang site.  

Connolly said portion the assistance cognition is ongoing, section teams "will proceed to hunt down the shorelines and astir the stream to marque definite that we're getting each the debris that's retired there." 

Emergency effect units hunt the clang tract of the American Airlines level connected the Potomac River connected Thursday, Jan. 30. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

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"And if by chance, arsenic a subordinate of the public, you travel crossed immoderate of that, you should telephone 911 and study it to them, and we volition get it taken attraction of and get it examined," helium said.