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Once that is completed, then recovering the two aircraft and then also finding as much of the debris from the collision that they can in the river,
Obviously, they're making really good progress in a short amount of time. But I'm sure that recovery of the victims should be the number one priority… providing closure to these families that have lost their loved ones should be the most important thing,
The Potomac is, is massive, you know, from where they are, it goes hundreds of miles all the way out to the Chesapeake Bay,
This is incredibly unusual. You know, we're trained and always ready to answer the call…when the dive call comes in. But that's typically involving one victim. And in rare occasions, a couple of victims,
Jake Crockett, a firefighter and diver with the Scuba Rescue Team of Chesterfield Fire & EMS, told Fox News Digital Once it's turned over to a recovery mission…our goal is to provide that closure,
They've got a really big job ahead of them, which is why I think this is going to be weeks-long, because in order to be thorough, they're going to be up and down that river for miles looking,
The first responder family is massive and everyone's always willing,
It's going to be zero visibility or close to zero is that they'll be diving in, and so looking for small parts of an aircraft in that kind of visibility is going to be extremely challenging…the waters here and the lakes and ponds and rivers…when you go in, it's just dark,
The water temperature especially is just above freezing, which is, you know, it would be absolutely unbearable to jump in without, you know, without the appropriate diving suits,
We will probably have more than one black box, so to speak. It's our understanding that the Sikorsky helicopter is equipped with some form of recording device, and those will be read either by the DOD or by us. We have a good starting relationship with them, and we've already made agreements in order to be able to do that. So I feel comfortable in what we're going to be doing,
said NTSB board member J. Todd Inman United States airspace is the safest in the world. ... Safety is one of our top priorities, and we continue to ensure that the airport is safe."
Lierecke denied any problems in the Friday press conference, saying We have to have our smartest people” as air traffic controllers
Trump said Thursday morning As a news reporter I've been covering an increasing amount of close calls in airports between aircrafts,
Rodriguez Poleo said on Welcome to Magaland The one good thing about aviation is they try to learn from past accidents and try to make corrections to prevent future accidents
In DC, it’s kind of a unique environment,
National Transportation Safety Board member Todd Inman said at a briefing on Thursday afternoon It’s not that we don’t have information. We do have information,
said NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy It's completely unacceptable in our nation's capital or anywhere. The military trains, and it trains robustly. And we're not going to stop training, even though there's a pause on this unit, on this exercise, which is an important one. And we should have that pause until we get to the bottom of this,
Is there something that we can point to? Training? Is the budget of the military sufficient to make sure that pilots and the crew have enough training and experience in order to fly those aircraft?"
It's concerning, certainly, the number of incidents that there have been,
Timothy Loranger, an aviation attorney at Wisner Baum and a Marine Corps veteran, told Fox News Digital I don't know exactly how the staffing occurred in that particular air traffic control tower, ... It sounds like there was a shortage [of controllers], and the investigation will tell us more about that. But the environment around which we choose pilots or air traffic controllers, as the president pointed out correctly yesterday, better be the highest possible standard — the best of the best who are managing … a flight a minute and managing radio traffic."
Hegseth told "Fox & Friends."
