Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser addressed the mid-air collision between an American Airlines passenger jet and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday (January 29).
Joined by federal and local authorities, Bowser confirmed that 64 people were on board the plane and three on the helicopter.
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Joined by federal and local authorities, Bowser confirmed that 64 people were on board the plane and three on the helicopter.
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00:00We are here to brief you on the very tragic events of this evening, where we know a passenger
00:15plane coming to the airport here collided with a military helicopter.
00:24So certainly I speak for the people of Washington, 700,000 of us who are extremely sorry for
00:33the families who are experiencing loss tonight.
00:39And so we want you to know that we will continue to work with American Airlines to share information
00:45as frequently as possible and make sure that we're getting accurate information.
00:52The focus now is rescuing people, and that's what all of our personnel are focused on.
01:00All we can confirm tonight is the number of people on each aircraft, 64 people on the
01:07American Airlines plane and three people on the military helicopter.
01:14We can't provide any more information about recovery efforts.
01:19We will reevaluate where we are with the rescue operation in the morning when we get
01:23a better sense of it, but we are still out there working and we're going to continue
01:27that throughout the night.
01:31We don't know yet, but we're working.
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