American Airlines wreck lifted from Potomac after DC Flight accident

A number of parts of the American Airlines plane that collided with an American army helicopter has now been lifted from the river Potomac.

National Transportation Safety Board announced on Monday 3 February that they had “Reset the aft body, right engine and right pylon“by jet.

At a news briefing, Colonel Frank Pera said from the US Army Corps of Engineers Baltimore District to remove additional pieces of the wreck, including from the Black Hawk helicopter, will continue, but that the whole process will probably take several days, according to to NBC News.

“The level of coordination both behind the scenes and out at Potomac is exceptional,” added Baltimore District Commander Col. Francis Pera “We do not have and will not lose focus on what is most important – the security of our crews and accounting for them is still missing to close their families and loved ones.”

In addition, NTSB said that investigators have “received training and flight logs for both flight crews and maintenance logs” for both aircraft – and they are currently working to “synchronize flight data enters and Cockpit voting data.”

American Airlines Flight 5342 was Makes his descent from Wichita, Kan., To Reagan National Airport About 21:00 local time Wednesday, January 29, when it collided with an American army black hawk helicopter. The crash resulted in an explosion and the plane dropped in the river below.

Three people were in the helicopter while 64 people – including 60 passengers and 4 crew members – were on the plane. Since the morning after the crash, head of DC Fire and EMS John A. Donnelly has been SR. said that his team does not think there are any survivors.

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Over the weekend Donnelly said that the bodies of 41 victims had already been recovered from the water, but that they would have to find all the victims Move the plane out of the water. As of February 3, the number of victims whose bodies has been recovered and positively identified has grown to 55, according to The New York Times.

The collision marks Deadly American air disaster Since November 2001, when American Airlines Flight 587 crashed in Belle Harbor, Queens, all 260 people killed on board and five people on the ground.