A devastating mid-air collision near Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C., involving an American Airlines jet carrying 64 passengers and a US Army Black Hawk helicopter with three aboard, has resulted in no expected survivors. Emergency crews have recovered 28 bodies from the icy Potomac River. Authorities confirm the crash was preventable, and investigations are underway. Rescue teams face harsh conditions in their recovery efforts.
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00:00Despite all those efforts, we are now at a point where we are switching from a rescue operation to a recovery operation.
00:07At this point, we don't believe there are any survivors.
00:19Fairfax 1, I need you to land immediately.
00:22Fairfax 1, understand. Landing immediately. I'm looking for a field.
00:26Top 6, go ahead.
00:30Top 6, go ahead.
00:35Top 6, go ahead.
00:45Last night, at 8.48, the control tower sounded an alert
00:49which alerts responders to respond to a report of an aircraft crash on or near the airport.
00:56That sets off an immediate response from the airport authority fire department,
01:01from the District of Columbia and Metropolitan Harbor Patrol fireboats and
01:06other fireboats on the river in order to support that type of operation.
01:10Can you return to base?
01:21Blackjack 3, proceed directly to Glebe, I need you to land.
01:29Fairfax 1, I need you to land immediately.
01:36Fairfax 1, understand, landing immediately, I'm looking for a field.
01:40Top 6, go ahead.
01:42You're landing, can you go to Dallas for a few minutes?
01:46Despite all those efforts, we are now at a point where we are switching from
01:50a rescue operation to a recovery operation.
01:52At this point, we don't believe there are any survivors from this accident.
01:57And we have recovered 27 people from the plane and one from the helicopter.
02:04The district office of the medical examiner has leaned on reuniting these
02:09bodies and these people with their loved ones and we will continue to work
02:14to find all the bodies and collect them and reunite them with their loved ones.
02:20Looks like all of the bodies we collected can be consumed.
02:25We have two models, one in rescue and one in recovery,
02:28which means that we need to find all the bodies and
02:31collect all of them as well as possible.
02:34We will continue to work to find them as soon as possible.
02:38We have collected 13 bodies, one in the emergency room and
02:41one in the emergency exit.
02:43The rest of the bodies are in the pool in the hospital.
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