🔴 TRÁGICO ACCIDENTE AÉREO EN WASHINGTON: UN AVIÓN COLISIONÓ CON UN HELICÓPTERO MILITA

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👉 Un avión comercial colisionó con un helicóptero Black Hawk durante un entrenamiento cerca del aeropuerto Ronald Reagan en Washington DC, resultando en la trágica pérdida de 67 vidas. El accidente ocurrió cerca del Pentágono y las aguas frías del río Potomac dificultaron las posibilidades de supervivencia. Entre los pasajeros se encontraban miembros destacados de la Federación Rusa de Patinaje Artístico, que regresaban de un torneo en Wichita, Kansas. Las autoridades continúan investigando el incidente.  👉 Seguí en #ElNoticieroDeA24

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00:00The plane that crashed in Washington D.C.

00:05ended up destroyed after it collided with a Black Hawk helicopter

00:10in the vicinity of the local airport,

00:16Ronald Reagan Airport.

00:19Unfortunately, we have to say that 27 bodies have been recovered,

00:26according to official sources,

00:30but it is not expected that there are survivors of these 67 people

00:35who were on board the plane that ended up, as we said,

00:40colliding in the air, a crash in the air.

00:43This is the moment of impact that occurs between that helicopter,

00:50Black Hawk, a military helicopter,

00:53and the plane that ended up destroyed,

00:57breaking in the air after the impact.

01:00We are working live from the United States.

01:03This is Adrian Sack. Adrian, good morning.

01:05What can you tell us about this story that we just mentioned?

01:11Good morning, Lu.

01:12Well, moments ago there was a press conference

01:17held by the mayor of Washington D.C., Muriel Bowser,

01:22together with the chiefs of police,

01:24the Secretary of Transportation, recently appointed by Trump,

01:27and well, they had to give the news that unfortunately,

01:32well, with the first lights of the day,

01:34which are 7.53 a.m. all over the East Coast,

01:38the rescue operations were terminated

01:44and they moved on to recovery operations

01:48of corpses and remains of the plane

01:51for the investigation of the accident.

01:53So far, well, if I update the number,

01:56so far they have recovered 32 corpses, 32 bodies,

02:01of the 67 that were lost in total in this tragedy.

02:07Well, there are 67 because 60 correspond to passengers

02:12of the American Airlines flight that was going from Wichita,

02:18from Kansas, from the center of the United States

02:21to the capital, to Washington D.C.,

02:23and that at 9 p.m., according to the first investigations,

02:28what the preliminaries have concluded,

02:30they say it was the helicopter of the armed forces

02:34of the United States, Black Hawk,

02:37that was doing a training flight

02:40and that in an abrupt descent flight

02:43hit the fuselage of this plane,

02:46a medium-sized plane, as I told you,

02:49it has a capacity for 65 passengers

02:52and it was almost full,

02:54until it was split into three parts,

02:58in three pieces, with what is assumed

03:00that the death of the vast majority of passengers

03:03was instantaneous, right?

03:05Because then, in addition, the remains of this plane

03:09and the helicopter all fell into the Potomac River,

03:13where there are temperatures of at least 10 degrees below zero.

03:17I had to be there, just last week,

03:21flying, well, arriving at that airport

03:24and also departing, due to all the journalistic coverage

03:28of the assumption of Donald Trump,

03:30and well, I could see that the river was frozen.

03:34Several sections, at least, of the river

03:37close to the airport were frozen.

03:40Now, we are not in a polar wave situation,

03:43like last week, but anyway,

03:45the temperatures are extremely cold

03:47and they already assumed that in case

03:50some people, some of the passengers

03:53or the crew members were still alive

03:56after the tremendous impact, right?

03:59of the crash between the plane and the helicopter,

04:01it was going to be very difficult for them to survive

04:05even if they had been able to get to the surface

04:08for more than half an hour, right?

04:10It would be too much, it was an extreme hypothesis.

04:12So, yesterday, even President Donald Trump

04:15in his statement already considered them dead, right?

04:18He insinuated that they were already,

04:20they prayed for the souls of all those involved in the accident.

04:23Adri, you said you knew that airport

04:26and also that it is a really complex airport, right?

04:30Due to these issues also linked, among other things,

04:33with the military activities that take place

04:35because we have to talk about a space

04:37that is practically a few meters in front of the Pentagon.

04:41Of course, exactly.

04:43On the other side of the Potomac, of the river,

04:45is the Pentagon and many training flights are made,

04:49particularly of military helicopters, right?

04:53Because, well, there is also a very close base

04:56there in Virginia.

04:58Washington DC is a city that is actually

05:01the only city in the state of Columbia, right?

05:04That's why DC is the District of Columbia.

05:06But Columbia is only that city

05:09and it is surrounded by two other states

05:11which are Virginia and Maryland.

05:13Both are highly militarized,

05:16well, traditionally,

05:18and because they also, well,

05:20guard, let's say, all the political life

05:24of the United States at the federal level

05:26and all the foreign representations

05:29that the diplomatic delegations of the world have,

05:33which are all concentrated in Washington.

05:36So, precisely, what you do see there,

05:40and what I noticed particularly in this last flight,

05:43it caught my attention,

05:45it was also an American Airlines flight

05:47that flew very low throughout the flight, right?

05:49That you could just communicate by cell phone

05:53without using the Wi-Fi services of the plane, right?

05:56Look.

05:57Not the land services.

05:58The cell phone services.

06:00A long time, of course,

06:02a long time before arriving.

06:04I spent it chatting,

06:06the most comfortable,

06:08in airplane mode and everything,

06:11you could,

06:12that if you connected to the plane's Wi-Fi,

06:16but you also removed the airplane mode

06:18and you could do it quietly.

06:20That, well, it just caught my attention a lot

06:23and that was one of the data

06:25that one of the passengers gave,

06:29who was not,

06:30you see, always in these tragedies

06:31there is one who does not go up,

06:32who could not for some reason.

06:34Well, here was a passenger

06:36who did not travel,

06:37who miraculously survived

06:39and who was communicating

06:41with some of the passengers

06:42who were on board the plane

06:44and who told him,

06:45look, in 20 minutes it is planned that we land.

06:48And then the contact of this passenger

06:50and all the others was lost, right?

06:53So, there they were presuming

06:55that something serious had happened, really,

06:58because it is rare that, well,

07:00you can run out of cell phone battery,

07:02but not everyone else.

07:03If you know the whole group here,

07:05there were many who were from the community

07:07of artistic skating, right?

07:09Of course, and precisely regarding this,

07:11some images began to transcend,

07:13among others,

07:14of a Russian couple,

07:17we are talking about Evgenia Shishklova

07:20and Vadim Naubov,

07:22who were on board this plane,

07:27this American Airlines flight,

07:29who lived in the United States

07:31since 1998.

07:33This information is already official

07:36and, in addition, the Kremlin itself ratifies it.

07:40Well, figure, precisely, of skating,

07:43who now dedicated themselves

07:44to the training of younger skaters

07:47and who came from a tournament, right, Adri?

07:51Yes, yes, they came from a tournament

07:53that had been held in Wichita.

07:55They were rooted in the United States,

07:57but they were still working

07:58with the skating team

08:00of the Russian Federation, precisely.

08:02They were very well known,

08:03they had been champions.

08:05Their son also

08:08dedicates himself to high competition artistic skating

08:11and then there were several skaters there,

08:13other coaches too.

08:16For that reason,

08:17they had flown precisely to Wichita,

08:20because there was a tournament there.

08:22And well, at the end,

08:23they returned to Washington, D.C.

08:25and well,

08:27it was precisely in the community

08:29of artistic skating

08:30where today they are particularly mourning.

08:34Absolutely.

08:35Returning to the moment of impact,

08:38the truth is that it draws attention powerfully, right?

08:41You said that, in principle,

08:43the helicopter,

08:45there we are going to repeat them,

08:47the helicopter ends up colliding

08:49precisely when it was doing

08:52training tasks.

08:54Manoeuvres.

08:55Exactly, training tasks

08:56and manoeuvres of descent,

08:58but abrupt.

09:00This is something usual in the area, I imagine,

09:03but there has never been a situation

09:05of an impact in the air.

09:08Yes, look,

09:09military helicopters are often seen

09:12near the airport.

09:14That draws a lot of attention.

09:16Well, on this particular trip,

09:17I even got to see the Marine One,

09:20which is the presidential helicopter

09:23that was taking, in this case, Joe Biden

09:26on the last flight to the Air Base

09:31to go to California,

09:37on his last flight as retired president.

09:40But there were also other security helicopters.

09:43There are many military helicopters

09:45flying over Washington permanently.

09:47Of course.

09:48And in this case, precisely for this reason,

09:50the pilots say that it is a difficult airport

09:53because it is the busiest,

09:56not at the passenger level,

09:58but at the plane level and at the occupation level

10:00of landing tracks.

10:02It is the non-international

10:03decabotage airport.

10:05Ronald Reagan is not an international airport.

10:08That is the one in Dallas,

10:10which is on the outskirts of Washington.

10:14And being at the national level,

10:17it has a very intense traffic

10:19of medium and small aircraft.

10:22And well, in this case,

10:24there was the occupied runway,

10:25runway number one,

10:26where I wanted to land this flight

10:28coming from Wichita.

10:30And what the plane was doing

10:31at the time of the collision

10:33was to reposition

10:35to be able to land on another runway,

10:37the number three.

10:39Well, it was at that moment

10:40that the plane was doing this low-altitude maneuver

10:43when it is hit by this helicopter

10:46that does not see it and does not understand.

10:49Nobody understands how I don't see it

10:51because despite being a moonless night,

10:53it was already nine o'clock at night,

10:55local time,

10:56eleven o'clock at night in Argentina,

10:59the air, let's say,

11:01the airspace was quite free

11:04and there were no clouds.

11:06There were no clouds

11:08and there were no other atmospheric obstacles,

11:10there was no rain,

11:11they were optimal.

11:13That is why President Donald Trump himself

11:16was angry at the tweets he made on Twitter

11:20about what had happened.

11:21In fact, his Secretary of Transport

11:23today also made the same complaint

11:26that this should not happen,

11:28that the Americans have to fly safely,

11:31that since 2009 there had been no major accidents

11:36and that, well, this is not something

11:39that is expected to happen

11:41because the automatic security systems

11:44of the plane did not work either.

11:46Many failures will surely have to be reviewed.

11:48Exactly.

11:49Many failures.

11:50Adri.

11:51They are now with the expertise,

11:52then we will see.

11:53We will continue to work on the subject.

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