Officials said on Monday that the rescue crews regained a large engine and parts of the fuselage and are working to recover a wing of the wreckage of a commercial plane involved in the last air collision near the National Reagan National Airport in Washington.
They also recovered more human remains from the Botomac River, although they refused to provide details, they only repeated that 55 of 67 victims were found and identified since they were destroyed on Wednesday.
The authorities said that the operation to remove the plane will take several days and then work to remove the relevant military helicopter. The accident between the US Airways plane and an army helicopter over Washington, DC, was the most bloody American air disaster since 2001.
The officials said that more than 300 respondents were participating in the recovery efforts at any time. Two naval bugs were also deployed to lift heavy wreck.
Gary Stein, head of the Ministry of Firefighting in Washington, said that the officials are confident that all the victims would be found.
The US Army Engineers Corps, Colonel Francis Pera, said that divers and rescue workers are committed to strict protocols and stopped moving the wreckage at times when human remains were recovered. He said that the “generous recovery” of the remains has the precedence over everything else.
Parts of the two planes that collided with the river on Wednesday night are loaded near Ronald Reagan Washington’s National Airport – an American airline plane that includes 64 people on board and a Black Hawk helicopter with 3 on the investigation. Beira said the crews hope to restore the flying cockpit on Tuesday.
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The accident occurred when the plane, on its way from Whitchita, Kansas, was about to land. Black Hawk was on a training mission. There were no survivors.
On Sunday, family members were transported in buses with the police accompanied the bank of the Botomac River near the place where the two planes came after they collided.
Among the passengers of the plane were the skiing championships in the United States in 2025 in Whitchita and a group of fishermen returning from a trip accompanied by guides. The pillars of the army. Ryan Austin Uhar, 28, from Lilpourne, Georgia; Senior officer officer 2 Andrew Lloyd Evez, 39 years old, from Great Mills, Maryland; Captain Rebecca M. Lubbash, from Durham, North Carolina, in the helicopter.
Federal investigators were working to collect events that led to a collision. Full investigations usually take a year or more. Investigators hope to obtain a preliminary report within 30 days.
On Wednesday’s crash was the bloodiest in the United States since November 12, 2001, when a plane in the New York City neighborhood criticized immediately after taking off, killing all 260 and five people on the ground.
Experts stress that traveling on the plane is largely safe, but the crowded airspace around Reagan Airport can challenge experienced pilots.
NTSB said on Saturday that the initial data showed conflicting readings about the heights of aircraft and helicopters. Investigators also said that in about a second before the influence, the recorder of a plane flight showed a change in his stadium. But they did not say whether this change in the corner means that the pilots were trying to perform a dodging maneuver to avoid the accident.
NTSB officials told reporters that the data from a plane flight recorder showed a height of 325 feet (99 meters), as well as a minus 25 feet (7.6 meters), when the accident occurred. Nevertheless, the data in the black hawk control showed at an altitude of 200 feet (61 meters), which is the maximum allowed for helicopters in the region.
The contradiction has not been explained yet.
On Monday, officials have warned of early speculation about the cause of the accident or the helicopter, or whether it may be a 200 -foot travel traveler in the area.
The colonel said: “There are all kinds of reasons that you can deviate from height, as you know, something simple like a flock of birds in front of you or you may deviate if you see something that represents an obstacle or another threat.” Mark Ott, Deputy Director of Aviation for the Army.
Investigators said they hope to reconcile the difference with data from the black box of the helicopter and plan to improve the tower data, which could be less reliable. NTSB said on Monday that all the five air traffic controllers in the Reagan Airport Tower had been interviewed with that.
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