Source: Recovery Teams Bringing Crane To Crash Site To Reach Victims

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

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3.7 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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The deadliest airplane crash in the United States in nearly quarter century occurred in Washington D.C., after a collision between an American Airlines jet and a United States Army Blackhawk helicopter. We learned that one of the flight recorders aboard the airplane has been recovered. However, 67 men, women, children are dead. Donald Trump offered words of condolences which was then followed a press conference where he blamed the crash on efforts to improve diversity in the workforce and past presidents Obama and Biden. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:34.1	We are coming to you from Ronald Reagan National Airport in Virginia, less than 24 hours after a sickening tragedy, the deadliest plane crash in the U.S. in nearly a quarter century.
0:43.6	A short time ago, we learned that one of the flight recorders aboard the American Airlines plane, known as a black box, has been recovered.
0:50.7	67 men, women, children are dead after the flight collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter. Now,
0:57.1	it's too dark to see, but the Potomac River is behind me, and we have been watching all day
1:02.6	difficult and dangerous recovery operations taking place on and in its frigid waters.
1:08.3	Divers and crews have to contend not just with the icy water, but wind and
1:13.1	currents, twisted steel, jet fuel, and a debris field that's very long. This hour, operations are
1:19.2	suspended for the night. The bodies of more than 40 people have so far been recovered.
1:24.3	D.C.'s fire and EMS chief told CNN today that he is confident they will recover the
1:28.9	remains of everyone. There is no good news, but that at least means families will be able to bring
1:34.6	their lost loved ones home. Much of how last night's collision could have occurred, that's still a
1:40.4	mystery. This is what we know right now. At about 6.39 p.m. Eastern, the American Airlines
1:46.2	flight took off from Wichita, Kansas. Then just before 8.48 p.m., an air traffic controller
1:51.9	appeared to communicate with the helicopter using its call sign, priority air transport or pat 25,
1:58.7	and then seconds later the collision occurs occurs and you actually hear the controllers
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