Up to eight hours, at least 28 bodies were drawn from the Potomac River, the head of local urgent services John Donnelly said. 27 of them were drawn from the plane, and one of the helicopters.
“We don’t believe there are survivors,” Donnelly said, broadcasts CBS television.
There were 67 people in two spacecries that collided on Wednesday night, 64 on a plane and three in the helicopter.
“We’ll work on finding all the bodies to bring them back to their loved ones,” Donnelly said, Reuters announced. The search takes place at low temperatures and in the head of the emergency services “extremely difficult”.
The accident occurred in the landing of the American Eagle Airplane, which flew from Wichite in the state of Kansas to Ronald Reagan Airport. The plane collided with the Milk Helicopter Black Hawk, who was on a training flight.
After the collision, the plane broke up in several parts that are now at a depth of between 1.5 and 2.5 meters.
Radio communication between the air traffic control tower and Black Hawka suggests that the crew of the helicopter was aware of the fact that the plane is nearby.
The Minister of Traffic Sean Duffy said that both helicopter and plane flown along with the usual routes. “There was nothing unusual,” he said.
The Pentagon said that the investigation into the incident immediately launched, for which the President Donald Trump, by publication on the Social Platform Truth Social, seems to blame the crew of helicopters and air traffic controllers.
It is about the first accident of a commercial plane in the US after 16 years.
The last major such accident in the United States happened in 2009. At that time, all 49 passengers and crew members on the flight Colgan Air. The plane crashed in the state of New York. Another person was mortally killed on the field.
Russian media conveyed that the former world champions in artistic sliding, Jevgeni Šiškov and Vadim Naumov were killed in the flight from Kansas. The couple won World Cup in 1994. years, and a year later they married.
The American organization of art sliders said that in the accident, its members were killed. One source for Reuters said that there were at least 15 people from the world of American artistic skating on the fly.
(Vijesti.ba)
