A screen that was taken from a video clip shown a regional plane collision with a military helicopter and crashed into the Botomac River in Washington, DC of the United States, on January 29, 2025.
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the The air collision Military helicopter and US Airlines Jetliner Regional in Washington, DC, on Wednesday night, up to the end of a series of safety of commercial air travel that was unknown To previous generations.
It is the bloody air disaster on American soil for more than 20 years.
Officials said Thursday morning that they were changing from the frequent voltage to a rescue effort and that there were no survivors. Washington fire and EMS President John Donlley said that 27 bodies have been recovered so far.
The American Eagle Flight 5342 was from Whitchta, Kansas, approaching Ronald Rigan Washington Airport at an altitude of about 300 feet when a Black Hawk helicopter collided with the US Army with three people with commercial aircraft.
Sixty-four people -60 passengers and four crew members-were on the American trip. The flight was run by US Airlines. The plane was Bombardier CRJ700, a regional plane used for shorter roads.
The rescuers had raced to restore passengers from cold water in the Botomac River on Wednesday evening, but local officials said that the conditions were difficult due to the strong winds.
Rescuers are working on boats with the rise of the sun at the site of the Botomac River after the Black Hawk helicopter and the 5342 American Eagle flight collided approaching the Reagan Washington National Airport and crashed outside Washington, the United States, January 30, 2025.
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The United States has gone years without a A fatal commercial flying crash. The last trading passenger flight crashes in the United States occurred in February 2009 when Continental Flight 3407 collided at a house while arriving in Buffalo, New York, killing all 49 people on board and one person on the ground.
The collapse of these turbocharged aircraft pushed federal regulations that require more comfort and training for pilots.
The bloody incident in modern memory was the 587th US Airways flight, Airbus A300, which was crashed in November 2001 shortly after it was launched from John F. Kennedy International in New York went to the Dominican Republic. All 260 people were killed and five others died on the ground in Queens.
Aircraft accidents have become very rare, which safety experts often reach overlapping and repeated safety measures.
“It is very safe. Even with this incident, I will say he is very safe,” said Jeff Josetti, a retired air safety investigator at the National Transportation Council in the United States and the Federal Aviation Administration.
NTSB will lead an investigation in Wednesday. FAA, US Airlines, will include labor unions for crew members and other parties.
NTSB will issue a preliminary report, but the final report that determines the cause or causes of the plane crash may take months, if not more than a year.
Investigators will examine everything from air traffic control recordings, training records, audio and data in the cockpit to black boxes if discovered, along with a set of other factors.
The accident represents a challenge to the president Donald Trump Days in his new term. He has not yet learned a candidate to become a permanent president of the Federal Aviation Administration after Mike Whitker stepped down from Biden on January 20, when Trump's period started.
In 2023 FAA developed a planned plan to improve safety and eliminate everything.Near calls“In airports.
