00:00Now, recovery efforts are still underway with a priority being victim recovery.
00:07Then we will recover the wreckage.
00:10We do have a short window where we have weather, bad weather coming in, some snow.
00:17And please understand that some difficult conditions because this is on an ice flow,
00:23which is moving about five miles a day.
00:26I want to take a moment and extend our deepest condolences to those who lost loved ones to this terrible tragedy.
00:36I also want to extend our deepest sympathies to Alaskans as a whole.
00:42The NTSB knows that villages like Nome and Alaska Aviation are tight-knit communities,
00:50so this tragedy affects so many.
00:54Please know that we'll work diligently to determine how this happened
01:00with the ultimate goal of improving safety here in Alaska and across the United States.
01:07What I'll say is each accident that occurs is separate.
01:14There are different conditions that led to that tragedy, so we can't compare one to another.
01:20And we're just at the beginning of stages of this one.
01:24Aviation is incredibly safe.
01:27We have the safest aviation system in the world, so I know it is difficult to see
01:34and I know it is on everyone's mind, but it is incredibly safe to travel by air.
01:40Right now we're in the recovery phase.
01:42Our focus is on victim recovery first and foremost. That's the priority.
01:46Then we're going to work on wreckage recovery.
01:49From that wreckage and from information that we're able to glean
01:53throughout our investigative process, that will help determine what sorts of recommendations we issue.
02:00Of course, we have past recommendations that we'll always look at that will help inform us,
02:04but these could be new recommendations.
02:06So too early, but still to come.
02:20NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
02:24California Institute of Technology
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