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American Airlines jet’s black box recovered from wreck amid fears air traffic control ‘mistake’ could have led to crash
BLACK boxes that could reveal crucial clues about what caused the American Airlines plane crash have been recovered.
Investigators are probing how the collision that left 67 dead happened amid questions over staffing and close calls at the airport.
The passenger jet and a US Army helicopter plunged into the Potomac River in Washington DC on Wednesday night after crashing mid-air.
Divers dredged up two black boxes from the passenger jet in the freezing water on Thursday.
The boxes record flight data and what the pilots say – and could be vital in offering clues about what caused the disaster.
A preliminary report is expected to be issued in 30 days, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said.
Both boxes were transported to one of the board’s labs on Thursday to be analyzed following the horror crash on Wednesday night.
It comes as…
- All 64 passengers are feared dead with at least 28 bodies pulled from river
- CCTV captures moment of the crash
- Chilling audio reveals the final moments of flight
- World champion figure skaters confirmed to be on board
- Figure skater shared final, tragic picture from inside the plane before takeoff
- Husband reveals wife’s final text from doomed jet
- Rescue efforts hindered by freezing & dark conditions with 12 hours before severe weather comes
- American Airlines CEO blames Black Hawk pilots
- Trump blames Obama and Biden’s DEI polices at FAA for crash
- American Airlines pilots and crew named
- Passenger names beginning to be released, including teens, parents, and coaches
All 64 people on the CRJ700 airplane were killed, as well as the three crew members on the Black Hawk chopper.
Divers now aim to “salvage the aircraft” and find additional components.
Authorities have not pinpointed a reason for the collision, which happened as the regional jet was trying to land at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
But air traffic control staffing numbers were “not normal”, according to an initial Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) report.
The controller who was directing helicopters was also instructing planes, The New York Times reported.
These jobs are typically assigned to two people.
Minutes before landing, air traffic controllers asked the incoming plane if it could land on a shorter runway at Reagan National.
The pilots said they could and controllers cleared the jet to land on Runway 33.
Flight tracking sites showing the jet adjusted its approach.
Less than 30 seconds before the crash, one controller asked the helicopter if it could see the plane.
The controller made another call to the chopper just moments later, saying: “PAT 25 pass behind the CRJ.”
But seconds later, the plane and helicopter crashed.
Former air traffic controller Michele Robson said instructions from air traffic control could have been clearer.
Washington DC plane crash victims
A mid-air collision between American Airlines flight 5342 and a military helicopter on January 29, 2025, left dozens presumed dead. The victims include:
- Captain Jonathan Campos, 34
- First Officer Samuel Lilley, 29
- Flight attendant Ian Epstein
- Flight attendant Danashia Brown Elder
- Spencer Lane, 16
- Christine Lane, 49
- Jinna Han, 13
- Jin Han
- Evgenia Shishkova, 52
- Vadim Naumov, 55
- Alexandr Kirsanov
- Angela Yang
- Sean Kay
- Peter Livingston
- Donna Smojice Livingston
- Everly Livingston, 14
- Alydia Livingston, 11
- Inna Volyanskaya
- Asra Hussain Raza, 26
- Michael Stovall, 40
- Jesse Pitcher, 30
- Elizabeth Anne Keys, 33
- Wendy Jo Shaffer
- Kiah Duggins
- Black Hawk crew chief Ryan O’Hara
She told Sky: “I would expect them to have specified the airline as well so that there wasn’t any confusion.
“In the dark in a city environment with lots of lights, and at that distance, I don’t think the helicopter would have been able to tell what type [of plane] the Airbus was that far away, so may have just assumed.”
It has also emerged at least two other pilots reported near-misses with helicopters while landing at the airport in the three years before the deadly crash.
A passenger flight had to abort a landing at the airport just a day before the tragedy.
Republic Airways Flight 4514 was forced to back out of touching down and had to make a second approach after a helicopter appeared near its flight path, the Washington Post reported.
Radio communications from Wednesday night’s disaster meanwhile showed that air traffic controllers alerted the helicopter about the approaching jet and ordered it to change course.
A newly-engaged pilot, a group of friends on a hunting trip, and teenage figure skaters were among the victims aboard the American Airlines plane.
Three soldiers on the Black Hawk, including a new dad from Atlanta, died when the military helicopter smashed into the passenger jet that had traveled from Wichita, Kansas.
The plane shattered into three pieces, and both aircraft sank into the inky black waters just before 9 pm ET on Wednesday.
Hopes for survivors quickly faded as rescue crews worked through the night in dark, cold conditions.
Authorities yesterday confirmed there were no survivors – making this the deadliest US air crash since November 2001, when 260 people died after a plane plunged into a Queens neighborhood.
American Airlines CEO Robert Isom said the pilot of the American Eagle Flight 5342 had about six years of flying experience.
The Bombardier jet was operated by PSA Airlines, a regional subsidiary.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the helicopter was flown by a “fairly experienced crew” of three soldiers who were wearing night-vision goggles on an annual training flight.
Officials said they were grounding other flights from the Army unit involved in the crash and would reevaluate training exercises in the region.
Police manhunt for ex-Cardiff and QPR star, 44, once dubbed Wales’ most promising footballer as he’s wanted back in jail
COPS have launched a manhunt for an ex-Cardiff and QPR star who was once dubbed Wales’ most promising footballer.
Leonne Jeanne, 44, has been “recalled to prison” by South Wales Police.
The former footy star was convicted of dangerous driving in 2019 after being chased by police at 100mph on the same road where his son was found dead.
He was later sent to prison for breaching a curfew.
Four years earlier, in 2015, he had been jailed for 30 months for his part in a plot to supply cocaine.
The police appeal said: “Leonne Jeanne. Age: 44. From Cardiff. Recalled to Prison. Give reference 2500002271.”
Two years ago, he was allowed out on day release from prison to attend the funeral of his son, who was among three people to die in a horror car crash in Cardiff.
Jeanne, then 42, was flanked by two police officers as he mourned son Rafel, 24, at the church service.
Rafel Jeanne and pals Eve Smith, 21, Darcy Ross, 21, died when their white VW Tiguan crashed near Newport, Wales, while Sophie Russon, 20, and Shane Loughlin, 32, survived.
Leonne had to attend the funeral in handcuffs as he served a ten-year prison sentence after being jailed for conspiracy to supply cocaine.
His son Rafel and five friends had been enjoying a night out in Newport last month before vanishing at 2am.
Their car was found 46 hours later in the tragedy.
Rafel’s funeral was held at St Peter’s Church in Cardiff with hundreds of mourners dressed in black for attendance followed by a cremation service.
Father Leonne wore a blue Nike tracksuit and was seen handcuffed to a cop as he made his way inside the church.
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Exchequer pockets €2.10 from your €6 pint – if we cut excise duty & VAT to ZERO, price could hit €4 to save Irish pubs
HOW are you not at your wits’ end living in Ireland?
Every time you venture to the shop, the pub, the restaurant, the chemist, the doctor, your bank account is assaulted, quickly drained of any money you might have.
The cost of everything. Christ, it’s enough to drive you to drink.
Except the price of booze is likely to bankrupt you, too.
Diageo, the makers of Guinness, has put up the price of the pint yet AGAIN — the FOURTH rise in just two years.
From next week, an extra 20 to 30 cent will be slapped on a creamy.
Depending on where you live, you’ll be forking out anything from €6 to €11 (the extortionate price of partying in Temple Bar) for the pleasure of one drink.
Scandalous.
But before you blame the boozers, or Diageo for that matter, consider this: For every pint you buy, the government takes, between excise duty and VAT, 35 per cent in taxes.
So, if you pay €6 for your pint, the exchequer pockets a princely €2.10. Gulp.
The taxes levied by the State have decimated, and continue to decimate Ireland’s hospitality industry.
Everything in this country is so damned expensive because of the Government’s greedy hand.
Micheal, Simon et al claim we pay among the lowest taxes in the western world. That may be the case when it comes to your pay packet.
But they hide the fact they double dip your hard-earned cash with an array of indirect taxes on everything you buy.
When it comes to alcohol, the Government loves to fleece you.
Ireland’s excise and VAT duties on the demon drink are the SECOND HIGHEST in the EU. Only the Finns pay more for a drop.
Drink is an easy target for government gluttony.
The levy on a pint of beer in Ireland is ELEVEN TIMES higher than in Germany. Our lot grabs 55 cent in excise duty on every pint. In Germany, the finance ministry takes just five cent.
A pint of pilsner in Berlin won’t cost you more than €4. Here, well, you know how much you must pay.
It’s no surprise pubs are closing at an alarming rate.
When it comes to a glass of wine, start crying. Our government levies 80 cent in excise duty on EVERY glass of red, white or rosé sold in a restaurant or pub. Here, you’ll pay up to €8 for a glass of plonk.
Like a snifter of whiskey? Well, the reason you’ll pay more than €6 for a small glass of spirits is because the Government takes 60 cent a glass in excise alone.
EXCISE DUTY
Slap another 23 per cent in VAT on top of the excise cut and that’s why you’re being hammered for a night on the town.
Throw in pubs and restaurants’ wage, heating and lighting bills, high commercial rents and extortionate insurance costs, and you don’t have to be Einstein to understand why our pubs are up s**t creek without a paddle.
The governments of Spain, Italy and Portugal have a different view of drink.
They are among the 15 EU countries that levy NOTHING in excise duty on wine.
A glass of wine in Spain will set you back around €2.
Go to the Basque country, home of Rioja, and it’s even cheaper. Many places in cities such as Bilbao and San Sebastian sell a top quality glass of vino for around €1.50.
Their bars and restaurants are packed as a result. Nobody drinks at home.
By refusing to levy taxes on wine and very little on beer (just 5 cent), the Spanish government has created a vibrant cultural oasis centred around the bar and the restaurant.
As well as promoting thriving local neighbourhoods, the zero-tax policy of the Spanish state has created a booming tourist industry, too.
No such forward thinking among the drab grey men in Leinster House. Not a visionary among them. No sense of what is happening to our hospitality sector because of the high tax policies.
No understanding of what is quickly being lost forever.
The Government now has the drink and food industry firmly in a tax chokehold.
CULTURAL IMPACT
It’s a short-sighted, money-first policy that is destroying a cultural heritage that deserves to be protected and cherished. But the Government doesn’t seem to care.
Successive administrations have REFUSED to lower excise duties and VAT rates.
They don’t see any need to do it in the near future either, despite it being a no-brainer to do so.
Nightlife could enjoy a renaissance if excise duty and VAT were reduced to ZERO. The price of the pint would fall to less than €4. Imagine that.
Government ignorance is costing livelihoods. Its stubbornness is destroying a cultural gem. If we lose the Irish pub, we lose our soul.
And it’s happening before our eyes.
LIFE FOR YOUNG IS MISERY
THE richest little country on earth and 70 per cent of 25-year-olds live with their mammy and daddy.
Being “rich” means nothing if you can’t afford a roof over your head.
Which is why one in eight 25-year-olds now live abroad, and a 21 per cent don’t see themselves ever coming back to live in Ireland.
Why would they? To live in their childhood bedroom? That’s no life. No life at all.
The study of 25-year-olds by the Central Statistics Office is shocking.
Some 98 per cent of the survey’s 3,380 respondents reported being “somewhat” or “very concerned” about access to housing. Only 3.8 per cent of them owned their own home.
Two in three 25-year-olds report severe financial pressures. One in three said they had real difficulties making ends meet, while one in 20 (5.3 per cent) reported “great difficulty”.
Some 82 per cent of 25-year-olds have a job – and 60 per cent of them have a university degree. Highly educated and working, yet living miserable lives.
Among this age group, 31.5 per cent of women and 18.5 per cent of men suffer with depression or anxiety.
The failure of government to provide a life for our young is nothing short of a national scandal.
MARY’S SUPER
BRAVO Mary Lou McDonald, the Sinn Fein leader, for taking the Government to court to uphold the Constitution.
If she didn’t do it, no one would have.
The cabinet cannot have more than 15 ministers. But the new administration has 18 – three of whom are so-called “Super Junior ministers”.
This is against the law and should not be allowed to proceed.
The Constitution is the Constitution, after all. If the Government wants more than 15 ministers in its Cabinet, then hold a referendum to change the Constitution. Let the people decide.
Until then, Super Juniors Hildegarde Naughton, Sean Canney and Noel Grealish must be kept out of the room.
No more bending the rules to suit yourselves, lads.
BLUNDER WALL IS A BIG JOKE
THE Government (as well as fleecing us) loves nothing better than to WASTE millions upon millions on consultants and reports and €336,000 bike sheds and €1.4m security huts and €700,000 bus shelters and so on, ad infinitum.
This week, it was revealed the OPW (Office of Public Waste) spent an astonishing €490,000 replacing an “unsafe” wall around the Dublin HQ of the Workplace Relations Commission.
The wall is 70 metres long and is made up of bricks and mortar.
Ten grand shy of HALF A MILLION bucks to build a wall. Peak Ireland.
Ask any brickie how much he’d charge to build a 70-metre wall and if he came back quoting half a million euro you’d tell him to take a run and jump, wouldn’t you?
Well, it seems the Government (and they’ll blame some unnamed officials in the OPW) don’t care much for spending YOUR money wisely.
It cost them €240,000 to DEMOLISH the wall and to rebuild it. How in God’s name does it cost that much?
A live ESB cable and a leaking pipe were discovered during preliminary works on the wall, which led to extensive delays and added a further €250,000 to the final bill. Ah, here.
The OPW gave the ESB €54,000 to “redirect” the live wire.
They gave a further €61,000 to Dublin City Council to, eh, close off footpaths and limit parking.
Now, there’s taking the p**s and they’re taking the p**s.
MEL PIC WAS A SHOP
AMERICA’S First Lady Melania Trump released her “official portrait” on Monday.
The black and white image, by top snapper Régine Mahaux, shows Trump’s missus as a woman “in charge” – or so we have been told.
What’s obvious is that the photo has been heavily photoshopped. No way anyone looks like that in real life.
It was picked to pieces on Twitter/X, with one person writing: “How many filters were used for this? She looks like she just hatched from an egg. And her face is very crooked.”
Which may be cruel. She looked much better at Don’s inauguration, wearing that giant Hooded-Claw-like rimmed hat beneath which you could not see.
TOURIST RIP-OFF
THE ridiculous spending of public money isn’t just confined to Dublin.
Down in Bantry, west Cork some €670,000 was spent on erecting 20 tourist information signs, footpath renewal and a couple of seats.
As the council put it: “These include one large stainless-steel portal on Wolfe Tone Square, six totem signs, eight lectern structures and eight directional fingerpost signs.”
Sprucing up our towns and villages is all fine and dandy, but why does it cost an arm and a leg?
Bantry was chosen by Failte Ireland to test out a national scheme to promote tourist destinations.
If they’re going to spend €670,000 on one town, what’s it gonna cost to roll it out nationwide?
More than a billion, I’d wager.
RTE star says ‘surely it was worth more’ after live DWTS blunder & brutal lowest score despite 12 HOURS in latex costume
TV chef Kevin Dundon has defended his dancing on DWTS — telling judge Brian Redmond his Shrek efforts were worth much more than just two measly points.
The 58-year-old’s routine with partner Rebecca Scott to I’m A Believer last week was blasted by judges as ‘more donkey’ than dance, and ended up with the lowest score of the night.
But what viewers won’t know is that he sweated inside his latest Shrek head from 9am on Sunday morning until 9pm after the show ended.
Kevin told us: “Putting on that latex head meant the heat couldn’t escape from my body. But it was worth it for the effect
“The producers had told me if I wanted to do Shrek they had a make-up artist who would come in and do me up. So I ended up in the chair for two hours on Sunday morning. It was comfortable but I was in that head all day.”
Despite a successful dress rehearsal, disaster struck on the live show that night.
Kevin said: “I missed my first step so Shrek went rogue for most of the dance.”
Worse was in store from the judges who branded the jive “a sticky, gloopy mess”.
He said: “I couldn’t believe Brian only awarded me two points. I spent two hours in make-up, getting made to look like Shrek, I wore a fat suit and I danced. Surely that’s worth more than two points Brian?”
Social media erupted when the chef survived the public vote and Ireland AM host Elaine Crowley was eliminated from the show.
However speaking to The Irish Sun, Kevin told us: “Some people say the public want me out but it’s the public that are keeping me in.
“Everyone is entitled to their opinion but I’d like to see them stand up here and dance on live TV each week. It was tough seeing Elaine going as she is a close friend.”
And Kevin claims he could go even further in the dance show with no eliminations this Sunday.
He said: “I’m thinking, if I can bring my scores up even slightly with the public vote, I might get immunity and you might have to put up with me until week eight.”
Following last week’s disastrous total of just eight points, for Dedication Week Kevin is dedicating his dance, a tango to Let’s Dance by David Bowie, to his wife Catherine who he has been married to for three decades.
He said: “It’s not often you get a chance to talk about the person you love, who stands by you. Catherine is the backbone of the family.
“We met when we were 17 at Blinkers nightclub in Leopardstown. Catherine was wearing a yellow jumpsuit and our first dance was to Bowie’s Let’s Dance.”
- Dancing With The Stars’ Dedication Week is on this Sunday night at 6.30pm on RTE One.
