55 victims of DC Midair Recovered from the Potomac River, identified

Officers in Washington, DC, identified 55 bodies withdrawn from the Potomac River during a strenuous multi -day recovery operation after clash between the commercial plane and the Black Hawk helicopter last week.

DC Fire and EMS chief John Donnelly, older press, said on Sunday that the remains were 55 out of 67 victims A plane collision was identified. The only injury reported by Donnelly was the first responsible to develop hypothermia while searching for cold water, but the person later recovered.

Officials also said they plan to start lifting shards from the Potomac River on Monday. Colonel Francis Pera from the American Army Engineering Corporation said he predicted “successful lifting” on Monday morning, adding that he would cover the wreckage with a tent to protect any human remains.

“We have a procedure in which we will watch the elevator as it is happening,” Pera explained. “And then if there are leftovers there, it won’t move while we are recovering the wrecks. We will bring that wreck to the boat surface. Our procedure (is) to immediately ask the boat to make sure we have full discretion.”

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Officials are at the scene of a debris in Rijeka from shortly after the collision between the Sikorsky UH-60 Black hawk helicopter ia Bombardier Crj700 Airliner acting under the Airlines dog, a American Airlines branch.

The aircraft data recorder indicated that the helicopter hit him on 325 feet on Wednesday night, and that before the impact had a change on the aircraft field, according to preliminary information published on Saturday.

“Currently, CRJ (aircraft) based on data recorder at the time of impact was 325 feet, plus or minus 25 feet,” said a member of the National Transport Safety Committee (NTSB) Todd Inman at Saturday’s press conference. “And for those who follow it carefully, it is a corrected height.”

“I can tell you that at one point, very close to the impact, there was a small change in the course, an increase in tone,” he added later, when asked if the plane had retreated.

Although air traffic control data had a 200 -foot aircraft height, Inman said that “they did not finish it and that more precision needed”, and that the Recorder data were also needed to answer the obvious 100 – TRI DIFFERENCE IN height.

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“Whenever we have information from the dictator, we will be able to give you a more specific answer,” Inman said.

Jake Crkett, firefighter and diver with a saviper team of Chesterfield Fire & Ems, said Fox News Digital Last week that the recovery surgery is “incredibly unusual”.

“We are dressed and always ready to answer the invitation … when the diving call comes, but it usually includes one victim. And, on rare occasions, several victims,” ​​Crkett explained.

“But some of this size, you know, has 67 people to explain, along with two planes and all the debris, it’s incredibly unusual. This is something that, no doubt, none of them could have predicted.”

The firefighter also noted that Rijeka Potomac represents the challenges associated with the temperature and visibility of the water.

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“It will be zero visibility or near zero is that it will be dived, so it will look for small parts of the aircraft in such visibility to be extremely challenging,” Crockett explained. “They run here, lakes and ponds and rivers … When you enter, it’s just dark.”

Mollie Markowitz Fox News Digital contributed to this report.