Crews that continue to seek debris from the Mortal collision From a passenger jet and an army helicopter near Washington, he used a plane equipped with lasers to scan the Potomac River bottom at dawn on Saturday, the National Transport Security Board said.
Great pieces of the jetliner and helicopter along with the remains of All 67 victims They already recovered earlier this week and the teams will now spend the next few days looking for smaller debris before finishing the job in approximately one week.
A plane operated by the Oceanic and Atmospheric National Administration and equipped with laser scanning technology flew at low altitudes on the accident site. The lasers are used to penetrate the surface of the river and map the river bed.
The NTSB said that the information collected will be part of its ongoing research on the January 29 collision between the Army helicopter and an American Airlines flight about Washington, DC, there were no survivors.
Thursday President Donald Trump I blamed the collision In what he called a “obsolete” computer system used by US air traffic controllers. And promised to replace it.
NTSB officials told the members of Congress that the advanced helicopter surveillance technology, which transmits the location of the aircraft and other data to the air traffic control and other airplanes, was off, the Texas Ted Cruz Republican senator said Thursday .
Researchers are also investigating the altitude of the plane and the helicopter, including if the helicopter was above its 200 -foot flight roof (61 meters). Researchers must be able to examine the remains of The Black Falon To obtain more precise information.
The accident was the MORE MORE IN THE UNITED STATES Since November 12, 2001, when a Jet crashed into a neighborhood of New York City just after takeoff, killing the 260 people on board and five on the ground.
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