CBS Evening News, 01/30/25
CBS Evening News
CBS News
3.5 • 650 Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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As the investigation into the deadly midair collision continues, today we stand united in mourning the 67 lives lost. Eye on America- The FAA manages an average of 45,000 flights daily, and while the U.S. aviation system boasts an impressive safety record, it is increasingly under strain. CBS News' Mark Strassmann reports on the safety of the skies. At the time of the American Airlines flight and Black Hawk collision in D.C., weather wasn’t an issue, but a storm system on the way could bring visibility challenges.
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| 0:32.3 | From CBS News headquarters in New York, This is the CBS Evening News. |
| 0:38.3 | The air crash recovery in the cold waters of the Potomac is finished for the night. |
| 0:45.3 | Good evening. I'm Maurice Dubois. |
| 0:46.3 | I'm John Dickerson. We're devoting much of the broadcast to what's become a rare event in this country, a major air disaster. |
| 0:55.0 | An Army helicopter collided with an American Airlines |
| 0:57.9 | regional jet as it was attempting to land last night |
| 1:00.9 | at Reagan Airport near Washington. |
| 1:03.1 | Both aircraft plunged into the Potomac. |
| 1:05.6 | All 64 people on the plane and the three soldiers |
| 1:08.9 | on the helicopter were killed. Most of the bodies have |
| 1:12.0 | been recovered. Divers will return to the water at daylight. They'll also be looking for the flight |
| 1:18.0 | recorders. Chris Van Cleve is at Reagan Airport and Chris, how could this have happened? |
| 1:25.6 | Well, John, one of the many questions NTSB investigators are going to seek to understand here, was a decision by air traffic controllers to move this plane from one runway to another, not long before the accident happened. |
| 1:37.3 | They also want to understand the communications between air traffic controllers and those army pilots. |
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