Key Takeaways
- A passenger jet collided with a US Army helicopter while landing at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
- The black box from the passenger jet was recovered from the Potomac River.
- The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the crash and has retrieved the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder.
Washington: One of the black boxes, or flight recorders, from the CRJ 700 passenger jet flight that collided with a military helicopter while landing at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport has been recovered from the Potomac River, CNN reported, citing the office of Democratic Senator Maria Cantwell.
On Wednesday, a US Army helicopter with three people on board collided with a regional passenger jet carrying 64 people as it approached the runway at Ronald Reagan International Airport near Washington, DC. Both aircraft crashed into the Potomac River.
ABC News reported citing a source that both the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder from the American Airlines aircraft have been retrieved and are being transported to the National Transportation Safety Board lab.
