They recover the remains of the 67 shock victims in full flight over the Potomac River

The remains of the 67 victims of the shock shock last week between an American Airlines plane and a United States army helicopter on the Potomac River in Washington DC already recovered, authorities reported Tuesday. Only one of the bodies has not been identified.

Meanwhile, the National Transport Security Board (NTSB for its initials in English) reported that it analyzes new data could place the helicopter above its maximum flight altitude of 61 meters.

The airport air traffic control screen, which depends on radar sensors and other data, located 91 meters, the agency said. However, the figure would have been rounded to the closest 100 feet, according to the authorities.

The researchers said they need more Black Hawk information, which continues to submerged, to corroborate the data.

The flight registrar of the plane indicated an altitude of 99 meters, with a 7.6 meter error margin.

Hours before, the recovery teams that worked in agitated waters took out from the Potomac River some large fragments of the plane, including the right wing, the central fuselage and parts of the front cabin, the control cab, the tail cone and the rudder.

«Our hearts are with the families of the victims while facing this tragic loss,» officials said in a joint statement from the city and federal agencies involved in the search and recovery, including the body of engineers of the United States Army , Marina’s diving equipment and Washington police and fire teams.

The Forensic Medical Service already works to identify the last set of remains, officials reported.

The collision occurred last Wednesday night when the plane was about to land at Ronald Reagan National Airport, and claimed the lives of all people on board on both aircraft.

The authorities said from the beginning that they planned to recover the remains of all victims, and now concentrate on the remains of the plane and, later this week, in those of the helicopter.

On Monday, the recovery teams managed to get one of the two engines from the plane out of the river, along with huge pieces from abroad, said the colonel of the Army Corps of Engineers, Francis B. Pera.

Sixty passengers and four crew traveled aboard the flight of American Airlines that left Wichita, Kansas, among which there were artistic skaters returning from the national artistic skating championships.

The Black Hawk was in a training mission. In it the army sergeant Ryan Austin O’Hara, 28, originally from Lilburn, Georgia, traveled; The Head of Guarantee Andrew Loyd Eaves, 39 and resident of Great Mills, Maryland; and Captain Rebecca M. Lobach, resident of Durham, North Carolina.

Federal researchers work to rebuild the events that led to collision. In general, a complete investigation takes at least one year, but they plan to present a preliminary report in 30 days.

Wednesday’s clash was the deadliest in the United States since November 12, 2001, when a commercial plane crashed into a neighborhood in New York City shortly after takeoff and the 260 people on board already died on the ground.

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