The American army helicopter involved in Wednesday's midair collision with American Airlines Flight 5342 had practiced the event of an attack on the capital.
Officials have confirmed that the three soldiers, who were all killed, had rehearsed a plan in which the evacuation of the White House was involved when their Black Hawk collided with the passenger beam on the passenger beam on Wednesday evening.
Defense sources confirmed the nature of the training exercise to CBS News, after the Internet -Speurneuzen had driven a theory that did exactly what sources say.
Theoreticians had flooded social media with claims that the helicopter carried out an emergency evacuation route for the president as part of a continuity of the government provision plan.
A continuity of the government mission (COG) in the US refers to a series of policy and procedures that are designed to ensure that essential government functions continue during and after a catastrophic event, such as a nuclear attack, natural disaster, cyber attack or terrorist incident.
One of the five most important aspects of a COG mission is to protect key staff and infrastructure.
Pilot in Chief Warrant Office 2 Andrew Eaves and Crew Chief Staff Sergeant Ryan O'hara were mentioned on Friday as those on board the helicopter.
The third person on board, a female co-pilot, has remained anonymous because the army refused to identify them at the family's request.
Officials have confirmed that the three soldiers who all died had rehearsed a plan in which the evacuation of the White House is involved
The Black Box recorder of the helicopter, which contains both the cockpit -speech recorder and the flight data recipient, was found on Friday in the midst of the wreck
Roof edges, left, and o'hara, right, were both aboard the helicopter when it collided with the jet
Military staff killed in accidents or fighting are usually informed 24 hours after their families have been informed, so that she is very unusual.
“At the request of the family, the name of the third soldier will not be released at the moment,” said the US Army.
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Family members have the right to do this, it is extremely unusual, with the New York Times the decision that entails the name an 'extraordinary step'.
Why the co-pilot's family asked her name to be withheld and why the American army agreed is unclear.
She had about 500 hours of flying from experience, which is considered a 'normal' amount, and her 'very experienced' colleagues had about 1,000 hours.
Earlier on Friday, a transgender woman named Jo Ellis was falsely named as the woman aboard the doomed Black Hawk.
She invalidated the claim during an exclusive chat with dailyymail.com.
An investigation into what caused Wednesday evening with an American eagle plane with 64 people is underway.
The two planes had collided in a huge fireball that was visible on dashcams of cars that ran on highways near the airport before it dived into the river
The two planes had collided in a huge fireball that was visible on dashcams of cars that ran on highways near the airport before it dived into the river
The Black Box recorder of the helicopter, which contains both the cockpit -speech recorder and the flight data recipient, was found on Friday in the midst of the wreck.
On Thursday evening, Salvage teams had succeeded in removing both black boxes from the American Airlines.
Both aircraft dived down in the Potomac River, with all 64 people on the plane and three on the helicopter that die as a result.
Ronald Reagan National Airport, where the American Eagle Jet entered the country, also stands for questions about shortages of air traffic controllers, despite serving a notoriously covered airspace.
On Thursday evening it turned out that one controller was allowed to go home at the airport in the night of the crash, leaving their colleague a much larger workload.
President Trump has also suggested that the measures for diversity and inclusion (dei) can be blamed for the tragedy, but he did not work out his claim.
