President Donald Trump has concluded that there were no survivors after last night’s midair collision between an American Airlines regional jet and a US Army Black Hawk helicopter in the Washington, DC, area.
President Trump who commented on the accident said to be the deadliest since 2001, also, without evidence, placed blame on Democratic policies.
However, emergency authorities have switched to a “recovery effort” and have found 28 bodies so far, officials said.
The aircraft, flying from Wichita, Kansas, was carrying 64 people, while three soldiers were aboard the helicopter.
The United States National Transportation Safety Board, which is leading the probe into the collision, hopes to have a preliminary report ready within 30 days.
Experts say both the pilots aboard American Airlines Flight 5342 and the military pilots in the Black Hawk would have been used to navigating the complex airspace, and the head of the nation’s air traffic controllers union said it’s too soon to speculate on a cause.
Several members of the figure skating community were aboard the jet, returning from a developmental camp in Wichita, US Figure Skating said.
The Skating Club of Boston named six victims, including Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, the 1994 world champs in pairs.
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