Wednesday, January 29 shortly before 9 p.m., an airliner with 64 passengers on board and a military helicopter occupied by 3 people collided. The possibility of finding survivors is minimal, according to Washington firefighters.
Sixty-four people had to land a few minutes after the drama at Ronald-Reagan airport in Washington. These passengers will never take. Indeed, shortly before 9 p.m. (3 a.m. in Paris), Wednesday January 29, A military helicopter collided with this airliner. A drama occurred above the Potomac river. The three passengers on board the helicopter made a training flight, said an army spokesperson. The two air machines crashed shortly after for unknown reasons. It would potentially be an accident.
Plane crash: “We don’t think there are survivors”
Since this drama, more than 300 rescuers are mobilized to find survivors. Alas, during a press conference, John Donly, head of the Washington firefighters did not have been encouraging the idea of being able to find survivors: “We are now at a stadium where we go from a rescue operation to a recovery operation. At this point, we do not think there are survivors in this accident“” . On the sixty-seven disappeared people, only twenty-eight bodies were found. Twenty-seven were on the plane and one in the helicopter. For his part, the chief of the firefighters assured that The rescue operation was complicated :: “It is dark. The water is cold, troubled. These are very difficult conditions for divers. There is wind, ice, it’s dangerous ”he said in front of the press.
Yet, According to the President of the United States Donald Trump, this drama should have been avoided. The head of state hastened to react on his social social network: “The plane was on a perfect approach trajectory to the airport. The helicopter was going straight to the plane for a while. The night was clear, the lights of the plane shone, why the helicopter did not go up or down, or did not make a turn. Why did the control tower told the helicopter what to do instead of asking if they had seen the plane? »»he insurgent. Currently (Thursday, January 30 at 3:26 p.m.), many bodies have not been found. In addition, the concrete reasons for this drama are not yet known.