Workers managed to get the remains of the plane and the US army helicopter from the Potomac river that collided in full flight last week in Washington.
Workers' crews were on Monday to the Potomac River to remove the remains of the plane and the US army helicopter that collided in full flight last week over the Potomac River, in Washington DC, in the worst air disaster on US soil since 2001.
The authorities have identified the remains of 55 of the 67 people perished in the clash and the director of the firefighters of Washington, John Donnelly, expressed confidence that everyone will be found.
The lifeguards were going to begin to extract the remains of the devices this Monday and at dawn a boat with a crane was seen in the place.
More than 300 lifeguards are working on the recovery mission at a given time, officials indicated. Two barges of the Navy were also deployed to extract heavy loads.
The divers are respecting the protocols and will pause if they detect human remains, Colonel Francis B. pear of the Army Corps of Engineers declared Sunday. The “dignified recovery” has priority above all, he said.
The fragments of the two aircraft that collided on Wednesday near the Reagan Washington National Airport – an American Airlines plane with 64 people on board and a Black Hawk helicopter from the army with three crew members – will be placed in trucks and taken to a hangar for investigations .
The incident occurred when the Jet, who came from Wichita, Kansas, was about to land. The helicopter was on a training flight. There were no survivors.
On Sunday, relatives of the victims were taken under buses under police escort to the shore of the Potomac River, near where the two aircraft fell after colliding.
On the flight there were ice skaters who returned from a championship in Wichita and a group of hunters returning from an excursion.
In the helicopter the army sergeant Ryan Austin O'Hara, 28 years old and Lilburn, Georgia, traveled; The major non -commissioned officer 2 Andrew Loyd Eaves, 39, of Great Mills, Maryland, and Captain Rebecca M. Lobach, of Durham, North Carolina.
The authorities are trying to find out the facts that led to collision. In general, complete investigations take a year or more, but the authorities plan to have a preliminary report in 30 days.
It was the worst plane crash in the United States since November 12, 2001, when an airplane fell into a neighborhood in New York City shortly after taking off, a fact in which all 260 people died on board and five on land.
Experts emphasize that air trips are usually safe, but the busy airspace on the Reagan airport can be difficult even for experienced pilots.