The clash of a 60 passenger commercial plane with a helicopter Black Hawk of the Army in Washington generated great shock in everything USA. At the moment, 28 bodies were recovered And they already anticipated that they do not believe there are survivors. While the details of the incident are still unknown, this afternoon a report He revealed that there were irregularities in the control tower at the time of the collision.
According to the internal report of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to which The New York Times accessed, the conditions of the Personnel in the air traffic control tower of the Ronald Reagan National Airport “were not normal.”
The document explains that the controller he was driving helicopters near the airport on Wednesday night was also instructing the planes that were landing and leaving their clues. These tasks are usually assigned to two different controllers.
The incident occurred a few meters from the White House and the United States Capitolone of the most controlled air spaces in the world.
Air accident in the United States: what is known until now
The plane crash was at 20:48, when a regional plane, at the end of a flight from Wichita, Kansascollided with a military helicopter that performed a training exercise, according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The landing was expected to happen at 20:57.
A few minutes before landing, aerial drivers asked the Flight 5342 by American Airlines If I could land on a shorter track, and the pilots accepted. The controllers authorized the landing and flight tracking sites showed that the plane adjusted its approach to the new track.
In the moments before the shock, an air controller asked the helicopter if he had the plane in view and then said through the radio: “Pat 25, pass behind the CRJ.” This message had no answer and seconds later the incident occurred.
After the tragedy, the chief of firefighters and medical services of DC, John A. Donnelly, gave a press conference where he said they did not believe there were survivors. For now, 27 bodies were recovered and would become the most fatal plane crash in the United States in 24 years.
On board the American Airlines plane, the Russian artistic skaters were traveling Shishkova and Vadim Naumov Evgenia next to some of his relatives. The couple had been in Wichita for the US Artistic Skating Championship, which ended last Sunday.
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