The crew on the doomed Black Hawk helicopter who collided with a commercial passenger beam was 'experienced reasonably', the army said on Thursday.
The Pentagon started to inform the relatives of the three soldiers who were on a training flight that they hit the plane of the American Airlines at his last approach to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
It is assumed that the first fatal American commercial airline crash has killed to 67 people since 2009 and asked questions if it could have been prevented.
There were night vision goggles on board the Black Hawk who then dived into Washington, DC's Potomac River.
More than 30 bodies were found at the beginning of Thursday for the ice -cold river, where the authorities said there are no survivors.
A temporary mortuary is set up in the capital to accommodate the bodies while divers continue their search for the bodies,
The Black Hawk helicopter cut through the airspace from the opposite direction under cover of darkness, with both planes that apparently are not aware of the presence of the other.
They beat each other at only 400 ft above the ground and burst into a violent explosion before she dived down in the Vriezame Potomac River.
Defense secretary Pete Hegseeth said that the flight was an annual skill training mission. Every year pilots and crew have to do night evaluations.
Emergency Response Teams are seen at the place of the crash in the Potomac River
Rescue boats look for the waters of the Potomac River for survivors after the fatal aircraft accident
Surveillance images from the inside also conquered the airport when the two bumped into the air
The national adviser to Donald Trump, Mike Waltz, said on Thursday morning that an 'experienced' warrant officer was on board.
Transport secretary Sean Duffy, who was sworn in just a few hours before the crash, said that the crash could be prevented.
He also stated that there was no communication breakdown between the Black Hawk and the American Airlines Jet.
The president asked harrowing questions about the crash at night.
He said he believes that the crash between a regional passenger beam of the American Airlines and a military helicopter should have been prevented. “
The president initially issued a statement in the hope that God would bless the souls of the victims as emergency services at the Potomac River near the airport to survivors after the incident.
In a post to the Trump ownership of Truth Social later in the evening, Trump raised various questions about the crash, which took place on Wednesday at 8.48 pm.
'The plane was on a perfect and routine line of approaching the airport. The helicopter went straight to the plane for a longer period. It is a clear night, the lights on the plane ran, why did the helicopter not go up or down, or turned around, “he asked.
Trump continued: 'Why did the control tower not told the helicopter something to do instead of asking if they saw the plane. This is a bad situation that looks like it should have been prevented. Not good !!! '
He wrote a brief follow -up post about the social social saying: 'What a terrible night this has been. God bless you all! '
More than 300 First -Responders and rescue workers were deployed in the Potomac on inflatable boats, while others built searchlights to relieve the dark waters in a desperate hunt for survivors.
But it is thought that nobody survived the brutal collision in the air that ended with the wreck of both planes sinking to the bottom of the flowing river.
It is the first fatal crash with an American commercial airline since 2009, when 50 people died in Buffalo, New York, after a crash of a Bombardier DHC-C propeller plane.
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