Morning Joe 1/31/25

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🗓️ 31 January 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Plane’s black boxes recovered after midair collision

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0:00.0	Good morning, welcome to morning, Joe. It is Friday, January 31st, with us this morning,
0:10.4	the co-host of our fourth hour, Jonathan Lemire. He's a contributing writer at the Atlantic
0:14.4	covering the White House and national politics and U.S. Special Correspondent for BBC News,
0:20.6	Caddy Kay.
0:21.3	Our top story this morning, again, the crash at DCA two nights ago.
0:26.3	The National Transportation Safety Board has recovered now two black boxes from the passenger
0:31.1	flight involved in the mid-air collision with an Army helicopter near Reagan National Airport.
0:36.4	The American Airlines plane was coming from Wichita, Kansas on Wednesday night.
0:41.5	It was making its final approach to the airport with a total of 64 people on board.
0:46.4	The Black Hawk helicopter from Fort Belvoir was conducting a training mission with three
0:51.2	soldiers aboard.
0:52.9	The aircraft crashed into the Potomac River.
0:55.1	Both, all 67 people involved were killed.
0:58.9	As of last night, crews recovered about 40 bodies from the Potomac.
1:03.1	Search efforts are set to resume this morning.
1:05.5	Officials also discovered the plane's cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder. Both have been taken to a lab for
1:12.6	evaluation by the NTSB. The cause of the crash has not yet been determined, but there are
1:18.0	some concerns this morning or of the level of staffing in the air traffic control tower the night
1:22.9	of the crash. Typically, Reagan National Airport has one controller for planes and another for helicopters.
1:29.9	But a source with knowledge of the situation tells NBC News on Wednesday, there was only one
1:35.3	controller handling both aircraft. While that is not ideal, it is acceptable under FAA standards.
1:42.6	New air traffic control audio captured the moment leading up to the crash and the immediate reaction afterward.
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