They recover the black box of the waiston plane in Washington, while looking for 14 missing

Chijioke Obinna

They recover the black box of the waiston plane in Washington, while looking for 14 missing

Researchers from the National Transport Security Board (NTSB) They recovered the cabin voice recorder and the flight data recorder of the rugged plane On Wednesday night in the city of Washington, according to local media. The recorders are found in the NTSB laboratories for evaluation.

While, Rescue operation members still look for 14 missingafter rescuing dozens of bodies from the cold waters of the Potomac River, where the aircraft fell.

As reported by the CNN, which cites several sources related to the rescue, the efforts to recover the bodies were suspended at night in Washington.

Looking for the helicopter recorders

NTSB spokesman Peter Knudson told USA today that there are no additional recorders on the plane and that Researchers are looking for the helicopter recorder.

The Black Hawk military helicopter, with three people on board, made a training flight and its crew was “quite experienced,” defense secretary, Pete Hegseth explained.

Federal aviation researchers promised earlier today that they will find the cause of the tragic collision.

The incident occurred when the helicopter and the plane collided on Wednesday at 20:48 local time (01:48 GMT on Thursday).

Chijioke Obinna

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