Speaker 1: Many dead bodies with four persons alive have been reportedly
Speaker 1: pulled out from river after a commercial plane with sixty
Speaker 1: passengers and four crew members on board, flying from Wichita
Speaker 1: Airport in Kansas City to Washington, d C. Had a
Speaker 1: collision with a military helicopter Midain while the jet was
Speaker 1: descending to land at Regan National Airport in Arlington, Virginia.
Speaker 1: The collision caused both aircraft to fall or crash into
Speaker 1: Potomac River in Virginia state that borders Maryland and Washington,
Speaker 1: d C. In the United States of America USA on
Speaker 1: Wednesday night, as at the time of filing in this report.
Speaker 1: On Thursday afternoon, more rescue boats were seen inside the
Speaker 1: Potomac River with more than three hundred rescue team members
Speaker 1: who continued to search for survivals, and the small passenger's
Speaker 1: plane had been pulled out of the river. Local media
Speaker 1: reported that at least eighteen bodies had been recovered as
Speaker 1: of twelve thirty am Thursday, and there are three debris
Speaker 1: fields from the crash. Police reportedly told newsmen the US
Speaker 1: black House military helicopter was said to be in training
Speaker 1: when it held a collision with Flight five three four
Speaker 1: two that had sixty four people on board. Fatalities have
Speaker 1: been confirmed, and law enforcements and rescue teams are on site,
Speaker 1: according to leave footage published by Routers on its first
Speaker 1: book handle on Thursday afternoon, An Outcome captured footage of
Speaker 1: the collision where the passengers jet and the military helicopter
Speaker 1: exploded with a ballfire before both fell into the river.
Speaker 1: As seen in the video footage, all takeoffs and landings
Speaker 1: at Regular National Airport are currently posed. According to the
Speaker 1: airport authorities. Sixty four people aboard the passenger jets American
Speaker 1: Airline says, and three soldiers aboard the helicopter. A US
Speaker 1: official said. Senator Roger Marshall of Cancers said, as reported
Speaker 1: by Routers, that it's really held when you use probably
Speaker 1: over sixty canserms simultaneously, and I don't want to forget
Speaker 1: the pilots and the flight attendance. When one person dies,
Speaker 1: it's a tragedy, but when many, many, many people die,
Speaker 1: it's an unbearable sorrow. It's a heart bread beyond me.
Speaker 1: Jo Jack Potter, president of the Metropolitan Washington Airport's Authority,
Speaker 1: it's a very difficult situation out there with the cold
Speaker 1: it's very dark, but there are numerous boats out there.
Speaker 1: There are dive teams out there. John Donnelly, Fire and
Speaker 1: M's Chief Washington DC. At eight fifty eight, the first
Speaker 1: units arrived on the scene and found an aircraft in
Speaker 1: the water and began rescue operations. This incident has grown.
Speaker 1: There's currently about three hundred responders working. It's a highly
Speaker 1: complex operation. The conditions out there are extremely rough for
Speaker 1: the responders. It's cold. They are dealing with relatively winding conditions.
Speaker 1: US Transportation Secretary Seohn Duffy says he spoke to President
Speaker 1: Trump and his department would offer full support to those
Speaker 1: on the ground. This is may of burial Bowser. They
Speaker 1: are working diligently in very dark and cold conditions, cold
Speaker 1: water to execute this rescue operation. CVS News reported that
Speaker 1: at least eighteen bodies have been recovered so far, citing
Speaker 1: a police official. Two sources told routers multiple bodies had
Speaker 1: been pulled from the water. Police said multiple agencies were
Speaker 1: involved in the search and rescue operation in the Potomac River,
Speaker 1: which borders the airport. Dozens of police, ambulance and rescue units,
Speaker 1: some FEIGN boats stretched along the river and rested to
Speaker 1: positions along the turmak of Reagan Airport. Light TV images
Speaker 1: showed several boats in the water, flash and blue and
Speaker 1: red lights. The airport said LT on Wednesday that all
Speaker 1: takeoffs and landings have been haunted as emergency personal responded
Speaker 1: to an aircraft incident. The US Army said in a
Speaker 1: statement that it could confound that the aircraft involved in
Speaker 1: tonight's incident was an early UH sixty helicopter out of
Speaker 1: Fort Beaver, Virginia. Airwall camera shot from the Kennedy Center
Speaker 1: in Washington showed an explosion mid air across the Potomac
Speaker 1: about at forty seven pm oh one four seven gmt,
Speaker 1: with an aircraft in flames, falling rapidly. According to routers,
Speaker 1: there is now an active rescue operation underway at the
Speaker 1: Potomac River in Washington, DC after a passenger plane operated
Speaker 1: by American Airlines collided within with a black Hawk helicopter
Speaker 1: while trying to land. Say THEES News, Chris Vanclive reports
Speaker 1: that this is the first commercial airline crash in the
Speaker 1: United States since a regional flight crashed in Buffalo, New
Speaker 1: York in two thousand and nine. This was an unparalleled
Speaker 1: period of aviation, something that appears to have come to
Speaker 1: an end tonight, Van Cliff said. White House Press Secretary
Speaker 1: Caroline Levitt says President Trump is monitoring rescue operations of
Speaker 1: the Potomac plane crash between a military black Hawk helicopter
Speaker 1: and a regional Jetsaman. Lady Greeny, you renee in a
Speaker 1: more digital way,