The US Army. UU. Launched on Saturday the name of the third soldier who died in a Black Hawk helicopter that collided with a passenger plane from American Airlines near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport this week, killing 67 people in total.
The soldier was identified as Captain Rebecca Lobach, from Durham, North Carolina. She was an aviation officer in the regular army since 2019 and assigned to the 12th Aviation Battalion, Fort Belvoir, Virginia.
Initially, the army had refused to identify Lobach, an unusual decision that the agency said it was taken at the request of the family.
But on Saturday, the army said in a statement that Lobach’s family had agreed to release his name to the public.
“She was a brilliant star in all our lives,” said her family in a statement, noting that she worked as a defender of the victims of sexual assault and planned to become a doctor after her military service. “No one dreamed bigger or worked harder to achieve their goals.”
Meanwhile, researchers from the National Transportation Security Board have determined that the CRJ700 plane was 325 feet (91 meters), more or less 25 feet, at the time of the impact, authorities said in an informative news session of the news of the news of the news of the news of the news of the news of the Saturday night.
The information was based on the data recovered from the plane’s flight data recorder: the “black box” that tracks the movements, speed and other aircraft parameters.
The new detail suggests that the army helicopter flew above 200 feet (61 meters), the maximum altitude for the route he was using.
Preliminary data indicate that the radar of the control tower showed that the helicopter at 200 feet at the time of the accident, although the authorities said the information has not been confirmed.
“That is our work to solve it,” said the member of the NTSB Board, Todd Inman, the journalists when asked what the discrepancy could explain.
Inman also said in Saturday’s informative session that the helicopter training flight would generally include the use of night vision glasses.
“We do not know at this time if the night vision glasses were really used, or what the stage can be,” he said. “Additional investigation should be able to inform us if that happened and what factor can play in the general accident.”
The data confirms that the air traffic controller warned the helicopter about the presence of the CRJ700 about two minutes before the accident.
A second before the impact, the crew on board the American flight had a “verbal reaction”, according to the voice recorder of the plane’s cabin, and the flight data shows that the plane’s nose began to increase, authorities said.
The official said that an automated radio transmission warned “traffic, traffic, traffic,” was heard in the voice recorder and then the sounds of the collision were heard before the recording ends.
The army previously identified the other two soldiers killed in Wednesday’s accident as the sergeant of the staff Ryan Austin O’Hara, 28, and the director of Officers 2 Andrew Loyd Eaves, 39. The names of the 60 passengers and four Crew members who died on the plane have not officially published, although many have been identified through family and social networks.
The teams are preparing to eliminate the remains of the Potomac River aircraft from Sunday. Forty -two bodies have been recovered so far, the Washington Fire Department said on Saturday, DC, Saturday.
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