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DC Fire Chief Shares Tragic Update On Deadly Plane Crash: 'We Don't Think There Are Any Survivors'
"Fire command. The accident happened in the river. Both the helicopter and the plane crashed in the river... he approached into Runway 33," she says.
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A horrific Wednesday night collision between an American Airlines flight and Army helicopter above Washington, D.C. has only grown grimmer over the nightâs darkest hours as first responders scoured the frigid, icy waters of the Potomac for signs of life.
By the following morning, 27 bodies had been recovered and leaders of the effort said they fail to see how anyone could have survived the mid-air tragedy.
âWe have recovered 27 people from the plane and one from the helicopter,â John Donnelly, Chief of the District of Columbia Fire Department, told media outlets, adding, âWe donât think there are any survivors from this accident.â
American Airlines Flight 5342 was en route to Reagan International Airport and directed to land at Runway 33 shortly before the crash. Air Traffic Control officers witnessed the plane collide with an Army Black Hawk helicopter about 40 seconds after sending final instructions to the aircraft carrying 60 passengers.
Donnelly said the response effort will now shift to locating the bodies of the deceased.
âDespite all these efforts, we are now at a point where we are switching from a rescue operation to a recovery operation,â he told Fox News.
âThe district office of the medical examiner has lead on reuniting these bodies and these people, with their loved ones,â Donnelly continued. âAnd we will continue to work to find all the bodies and collect them and reunite them with their loved ones.â
Others traveling aboard the aircrafts included four crew members with the commercial flight and three soldiers aboard the Army helicopter.
Audio from the control center reveals what appears to be a stunned ATC center in charge of landing the aircraft and instructing the Army Black Hawk, a UH-60 helicopter Sikorsky UH-60 helicopter, referred to as âPAT25,â to pass behind the jet.
âTower Did you see that?â ground traffic radioed to the tower.
âYup we saw it,â someone from above replies. Controllers moved to begin diverting all flights.
âEverybody hold your positions on the field right now,â a female controller says.
âFire command. The accident happened in the river. Both the helicopter and the plane crashed in the river⌠he approached into Runway 33,â she says.
A senior U.S. Department of Defense official told Fox News that the Army pilot was âfairly experiencedâ with the Black Hawk under his control and was equipped with night vision.
Aviation analyst Kyle Bailey told Fox that the collision amounts to a âperfect stormâ in the industry, akin to walking outside and being struck by lightning.
âIt was the perfect storm of events that happened last night,â he said, adding it is âunfair to cast blame at this early stage.â
âThe U.S. military runs an incredible aviation operation,â he said. âBut distractions do happen, and all humans make errors.â
Still, the tragedy presents an early first test for the Trump administration and comes one day after transportation secretary Sean Duffy was confirmed for his position. The former reality TV star said Thursday that he sees what transpired over D.C. as âabsolutely preventable.â
âWe are going to wait for all the information to come in from this vantage point,â he said Thursday.
âBut to back up what the president said and what Iâve seen so far, do I think this was preventable? Absolutely,â he added.
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