None of the 67 passengers on the decks of both machines, which collided just before landing at Ronald Reagan airport, survived the accident.
Black cabinets with flight data and voice recordings from a pilot cockpit from a commercial plane that collided from a military helicopter on Wednesday in Washington and collapsed into the Potomac River, discovered on Thursday in the machine wreck. TASR reports according to AP and AFP.
Sources close to the accident investigation for CBS and ABC News have confirmed that the black cabinets have picked up from the wreck of a commercial machine operated by the subsidiary of the American Airlines and will be reviewed by the National Office for Transport Safety (NTSB). conducting the investigation.
None of the 67 passengers on the decks of both machines survived just before landing at Ronald Reagan airport. The airport is located near the center of Washington, the White House and Pentagon, recalls AFP. The airy space of this airport is extremely busy and in the area almost continuously moving civilian and military aircraft.
NTSB said on Thursday that it would not determine the cause of the accident or speculate about it until the investigation is over.
At the same time, the Chinese state media, referring to the Chinese Embassy in the United States, said at night on Friday that two Chinese citizens were on board the crashed machine.
On board a commercial plane were also American figure skaters with their coaches, as well as former Russian representatives and world champions from 1994 Yevgeny Siškovová and Vadim Naumov. The Kremlin confirmed on Thursday that Russian citizens were on board a crashed plane and expressed their condolences to the families of the victims and their friends.
According to the AP agency, 28 bodies have so far been pulled out of the Ice Waters of the Potomac River.
