- A plane run by US Airlines collided with a Black Hawk helicopter in Washington, DC.
- The investigators said on Thursday that they recovered the black boxes from the passenger plane.
- Black boxes can provide major data from moments before influence.
Investigators have registered registration devices, or black boxes, from one of the planes participating in a crash in the middle of Wednesday evening near Reagan Washington National Airport.
A spokesman for the National Transport Safety Council, who oversees the investigation of the accident, told Business Insider in an email that “the cockpit audio recorder and airline registrar” from the Bombardier CRJ700 plane run by US Airlines has been recovered.
“The recordings are in NTSB laboratories for evaluation,” the spokesman said.
BlackBoxes provides major parts of data that can help researchers determine what happened before the moment of influence.
The cockpit audio recorder “records radio and sounds in the cockpit, such as pilot sounds and engine noise,” according to NTSB. “The other, the flight data recorder (FDR), monitors parameters such as height, weather speed and element.”
BI reported that the collision between a passenger plane and a military helicopter caused in one of the most crowded air spaces in the United States.
Sixty-seven people-including four crew members, 60 passengers on board CRJ700 and three Black Hawk crew-assumed dead.
For years, aviation experts have warned of the risk of air collision among an increased air traffic controller and the increasingly crowded air field.
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