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At 8.45 (GMT, Thursday) on Wednesday, 8.45 am. The US Eagle Flight 5342 of Wichoto’s Wichoto was landing calmly to Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington.
The sky is very clear and the grace is moderate. Among the 60 passengers, there are several top American figure skating athletes who have just participated in the training camp on the central and western ice.
A network camera above the John F Kennedy Center on the other side of the Poto Mark River captured the granular lens of the Bombardier CRJ701 flashing wing light, which entered the land.
But in the video, it can also be seen in the lighthouse lamp of another aircraft, a U.S. Army UH-60 Blackhawk, which flew down in the training task.
In 08.47pm, two light spots can be seen during the obvious collision.
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Under the Call-Sign Pat25, a recording from the Air Traffic Control Tower captured panic-to-panic information to the helicopter pilot.
“Pat25, do you have CRJ? Pat25, after CRJ.” A controller said.
However, there were three soldiers on the Black Eagle team’s pilot and could not answer.
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On the instrument panel on the way, a dashboard passed by a car, and the sudden orange explosion light up the night above the 33 runway, a few seconds after the message of the controller was conveyed.
You can see the passenger plane fell from the sky.
“Oh, God,” Car driver Ari Schulman went home on his way home. “OMG.”
You can also hear the breathing sound from the air traffic control: “Oh, oh, my God”, a controller said that her voice was broken.
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Data from the flight path show that the nose plow of the passenger jet machine is plowed into the port side of the helicopter. The crash uses the fire wreckage of the two planes to be sent to the river below.
“Tower, have you seen?” Another nearby aircraft called through a radio. A air traffic controller said: “Crash, collapse, collapse, this is an alert three.”
“I just saw the fireball, and then it disappeared. Since they hit the river, I have nothing to see. But this is a CRJ and a helicopter.”
The rescue department immediately looked for any survivors of 67 people towards the river.
Emergency response unit evaluate the wreckage of the Poto Mark River-Getty Image North America
From a point along the George Washington Road north of the airport, the inflatable rescue ship was launched from the coast of George Washington Park Avenue to Potoma. The first respondent set up a lighthouse from the shore to illuminate the area near the collision location.
At least six vessels scan the black water with a search light.
An official said earlier on Thursday that responders who conducted search and rescue operations faced the “extremely rough” conditions.
A city official told the Washington Post, and passenger jet aircraft were divided into fragments and helicopters hung upside down in the water.
By 7 am, more than 30 corpses have been pulled from the river. After a few days in cold weather, the current temperature in the water is twice Celsius.
On the bank of Potomak, the authorities asked camera crews and bystanders to close the camera so that ships could focus on water.
The reporter said that as the debris floated on the ground, the smell of the fuel drifted from the crash.
DC Fire Director John Donnelly announced: “We don’t know if there are survivors.” He added that 300 rescue workers were working on the river.
Hamaad Raza (Washington National Airport) was waiting for his wife at Washington National Airport, saying that he had a text message to say that she was about to enter the land with her.
“[I’m] Just pray that someone will pull her out of the river now. “He told CNN affiliated company wusa.
“This is what I can pray, I just pray to God.”
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He said that any text he sent to his wife did not convey to his wife, and the last news of their “landing within 20 minutes”.
Mr. Donali told the press conference at 7.30 am that he did not believe that there were survivors. He said: “We are now converting from rescue operations to recovery.”
Robert Isom, CEO of US Airlines, said he didn’t know why helicopters entered jet aircraft.
He added: “This is devastating.” “Our focus is to do everything that we can support all participants.”
One night after the crash, the national airport closed and transferred the traffic to the Thurgood Marshall Airport in Dulles or Baltimore.
Tass of the Russian National News Agency said that the highly anticipated figure skating athletes from the country are pilots of American airlines, including Yevgenia Shishkova and Wadim Namo Vadim Naumov, they won the world championship in 1999.
According to Russia’s TASS and RIA news agencies, their son Maxim competes for the American son in a singles competition and is worried that he has participated in the plane.
The Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: “Bad news from Washington today.” “We regret and expressed their condolences to their families and friends who lost their deaths in the plane.”
Russian figure skating athletes Yevgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov
Republican senator Roger Marshall in Kansas said “heartbreaking” in a crash.
“When a person dies, this is a tragedy, but when many many people die, this is an unbearable sadness.”
But President Donald Trump focused on people who should blame, which showed that helicopter pilots and air traffic control failed. He wrote “Society:”: “
He wrote: “The aircraft is in the perfection and conventional method of leading to the airport.”
“The helicopter has been driving directly on the plane for a long time.”
“This is a clear night, and the lights on the plane are shining. Why does the helicopter rise or turn down or turn around or turn around.”
“Why don’t the control tower tell the helicopter what to do, not ask them if they see the plane.”
“This is a bad situation, it should be stopped. Not good !!!”
Air traffic controllers have recently worried that a fatal collision accident is inevitable. In recent years, due to the national shortage of employees across the country, there has been a series of almost mistakes in recent years.
The airspace of the Poto Mark River constitutes the most complicated challenge of the entire US aviation safety, and the military technology shares the space with a large number of passenger jets.
A survey of New York Times found that passenger jet machines should be blamed for human errors due to obvious collision courses.
“Will this make people eager to move forward?” A controller said in January that year, and there was almost no prevention in the air.
Wednesday night’s collision accident is already the most deadly 23 years in the United States, and it is also the first time to involve 16 years.
Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport was built in 1941 and is expected to handle 15 million passengers as the largest. Today, it has more than 25 million.
In the early morning of Thursday, a few families were suspicious in reaching the lounge, waiting for the terrible suspense, thereby gained the consequences of the crash.
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