The National Transportation Safety Board says it has recovered a cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder from the American Airlines plane that collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan National Airport late Wednesday. Details are emerging about the 67 people presumed dead following the crash.
National Transportation Safety Board member Todd Inman told FOX Business on Friday that “the most important thing right now is to obtain and preserve any perishable evidence so that whenever we come off scene, we can start the analyzation of it. “Today will be yet another day of the teams going out there. Yesterday, we had our organizational meetings. They're doing another one this morning. They're out in the field. They're collecting data. They've started interviews,” he said.
” “Everything that's there should be good for 30 days, but we want to make sure we get everything preserved immediately,” Inman also said. A total of 67 people are presumed dead following the midair collision Wednesday night between the American Airlines passenger jet and an Army Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan National Airport. For more information on this heartbreaking event in the Potomac River, you can refer to the past live updates from Fox News Digital from Wednesday and Thursday.
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