Officials in Washington, DC, set 55 bodies withdrew from the Botomac River during a multi -day hard recovery process yet The air collision Between a commercial plane and a Black Hawk helicopter last week.
DC Fire and EMS President John Donlley, the father of the journalists on Sunday, stated that remains 55 of 67 victims The collision of the plane was determined. The only injury to Doni was the first respondent that developed a decrease in body temperature while searching in frozen cold water, but the person recovered later.
The officials also said they were planning to start lifting the debris from the Botomac River on Monday. Colonel Francis Pera of the American Army Engineers Company said he expected a “successful elevator” on Monday morning, adding that they would cover the debris with a tent to protect any human remains.
“We have a process where we will see the elevator as it happens,” Praira explained. “Then if there are residue there, this will not move while recovering the debris. We will attend this debris on the surface of the barge. The full estimated power.”
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Emergency vehicles and recovery operations are seen near the mouth of the Anakostia River in the Botomac River near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, on Friday, January 31, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Rummat)
The officials of the wreckage of the river were short of a collision between Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter and Bombardier CRJ700 Airliner works under Psa Airlines, a subsidiary of US Airlines.
The aircraft data registrar indicated that he was hit at an altitude of 325 feet by the helicopter on Wednesday evening, and that there was a change in the plane stadium, according to the initial information issued on Saturday.
“CrJ (the plane) was based on the data recorder at the time of the impact of 325 feet, in addition to or minus 25 feet,” Todd Inman, a member of the National Transport Board (NTSB) told a press conference on Saturday. “And for those who closely follow this, this is a corrected height.”
He later added: “I can tell you at some point, very close to the effect, there was a slight change on the field and an increase on the field.”
Although air traffic control data had a height of the plane at 200 feet in the effect, Inman said they “did not finish this and need to get more details about it”, and is there also a need for data from the Black Hawk registrar to answer 100 The phenomenon. The difference in height.
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Coats recover the 5342 US Airways flight from the Botomac River on January 30, 2025. (Lee Green in favor of Fox News Digital)
“The more data we have, we will be able to give you a more specific answer,” Inman said.
Jake Crocate, a firefighter and diver with the Scuba rescue team at Chesterfield Fire & EMS, Tell Fox News Digital Last week, the recovery process is “incredible.”
“We are always trained and ready to respond to the call … when the diving call comes, but it usually includes one victim. On rare occasions, Crocate explains.
“But there is something of this size, as you know, that you have 67 people, along with two planes and all the debris, it is incredible in an incredible way. It is something that none of them can predict.”
The firefighter also indicated that the Botomac River raises the challenges related to temperature and water clarity.
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A plane is flying near the Ronald Reagan Washington Airport in the wake of the collision of the 5342 American Eagle and the Black Hawk helicopter crashed into the Potomac River, in Arlington, Virginia, on January 30, 2025. (Eduardo Monoz/Reuters)
“It will be zero or near zero that they will dive, so searching for small parts of a plane in this type of vision will be a very challenge,” Crocate explained. “Water here, lakes, ponds and rivers … when you enter, darkness is just.”
Molly Marquitz of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
