Investigators recover black boxes from plane that collided with helicopter

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00:00Amid recovery operations in the Potomac River, authorities have located the black box recorder

00:06of the American Airlines plane following a deadly collision with Army Black Hawk helicopter

00:11Wednesday evening.

00:15The cockpit, voice recorder and flight data recorder have been taken for lab analysis

00:20by the National Transportation Safety Board, responsible for investigating all civil aviation

00:26accidents, but in the meantime, rescuers continue to recover the bodies of victims.

00:31We are now at a point where we are switching from a rescue operation to a recovery operation.

00:38At this point we don't believe there are any survivors from this accident.

00:43President Donald Trump confirmed that there were no survivors among the 67 people on board

00:49the two aircrafts, blaming the crash on diversity hires and inclusion policies at federal agencies.

00:56I put safety first. Obama, Biden and the Democrats put policy first. A week before I entered

01:02office they put a big push to put diversity into the FAA's program.

01:08According to a Federal Aviation Administration report, the agency had been struggling with

01:13a shortage of air traffic controllers, with only one member of staff instead of two handling

01:19both plane and helicopter traffic in Regan Washington National Airport at the time of

01:23the crash.

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