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The NTSB published video showing officials at the site of the fatal Jan. 31 plane crash in Philadelphia, which killed at least seven people and injured 22 others.
All 67 people aboard the two aircraft were killed in the crash (64 on the airliner, 3 on the helicopter). The accident was the first fatal crash in the U.S. involving a major U.S. airline since Colgan Air Flight 3407 in 2009, and the deadliest since American Airlines Flight 587 in 2001. [8]
Emergency response crews, which did not expect to find survivors, have thus far recovered more than 40 bodies and several aircraft parts, including the flight recorders, from the icy Potomac River.
The NTSB says when the Jan. 29 collision between a passenger plane and helicopter occurred, the air traffic control tower had five persons on duty.
[81] [82] The plane was piloted by the ABC's regional manager. [83] After making three circuits of the airstrip, the aircraft crashed 800 metres short of the airstrip. [81] The crash killed the regional manager, a reporter, a camera operator and a sound technician. [83] 4 0 The cause of the accident remains undetermined. [81]
Excerpts from the CVR transcript can be seen in the upper left hand corner.}} |date =2003-10-08 |source =National Transportation Safety Board The NTSB mailed this to me on a CD when I asked them for the docket on this accident. |author =National Transportation Safety Board }} Category:Videos of aircraft accidents
About 1 p.m. Mountain Time in Campbell County, Wyoming, a Pilatus PC-12/47E single-engine aircraft crashed north of Gillette, about 223 miles north of Cheyenne, the capital of Wyoming. The crash started a wildfire which firefighters contained to an area smaller than one square mile.
The pilot of the passenger plane that hit a military chopper and crashed in the Potomac River may have attempted a last second move to evade collision, NTSB said at a news conference.