They rule out to find survivors of the clash between American Airlines plane and military helicopter

“We do not believe that there is any survivor,” said John Donnelly, firefighters from the Columbia district, at a press conference offered after the plane crash in USA between a plane from American Airlineswith 64 people on board, and a military helicopter, in which three crew members were.

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“Despite all efforts, we are now at a point where we are going from a rescue operation to a recovery operation. At the moment We do not believe that there is any survivor of this accident. We have recovered 27 people from the plane and one of the helicopter ”, was what Donnelly reported.

The US Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy, said the authorities have located the Black Hawk Military Helicopter and the commercial plane of American Eagle, a regional subsidiary airline of American Airlines, which were injured in Washington.

“We have located the two aircraft,” Duffy said in a press conference at Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington, which will remain closed, at least, until eleven o’clock this Thursday.

The secretary explained that the American Eagle commercial plane fuselage was found at three different points and that the work to recover the remains will be developed throughout the day.

Donnelly revealed to journalists that some 300 rescuers work in “extremely difficult” conditions.

“We are going to be there as long as necessary,” said the mayor of the capital, Muriel Bowser.

“He Flight 5342 of American Eagle (American Airlines subsidiary) en route from Wichita, Kansas (ICT), to Washington (…) suffered an accident “with” 60 passengers and four crew members on board, “said American Airlines.

The couple of Russian artistic skaters Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, world champions in 1994, were aboard the plane along with other personalities in the world of American skating. “Unfortunately we see that these sad reports are being confirmed. Our fellow citizens were there,” said Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov.

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In a video broadcast by American Airlines, its executive director, Robert Isom, expressed his “deep regret” because of the accident when the plane was about to land at Ronald Reagan airport in Washington.

The helicopter was of the Black Hawk type and took three military on board, according to a US army manager who did not give details. The device made a “Training Flight”a military spokesman reported in a message posted in X by the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth.

In a dramatic audio of the air traffic service, the controllers are heard repeatedly ask the helicopter if he had “in view” the passenger plane and just before the clash tell him that “it will pass from behind” the plane.

“I just saw a fireball and disappeared,” a controller was heard to tell another after communication with the helicopter was cut.

According to experts, possibilities that passengers survive a long time in the icy waters of Potomac are scarce. On Wednesday, the temperature of the river was 2.2 degrees Celsius, according to the National Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

At that temperature, “cold water quickly eliminates the heat of the body, which could cause a cold shock in the first minute, the loss of muscle control in ten minutes or hypothermia in 20 or 30 minutes,” according to the website of the website National Meteorological Service.

“May God bless you,” said the president Donald Trump In a statement. Subsequently, on its social truth platform, the Republican estimated that the accident “should have been avoided.”

“Why don’t the control tower tell the helicopter what to do instead of asking if they saw the plane? This is a bad situation that seems to have been avoided,” Trump wrote.

Kristi Noem, the Secretary of Internal Security, published in X that he is “deploying all the resources available from the United States Coast Guard.” In videos hanging on social networks, helicopters are seen flying over the river and traveling the water with beams.