(30 Jan 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Arlington, Virginia – 30 January 2025
1. Wide, NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy addresses reporters at news conference
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Reporter asking question:
"So, we’ve heard from President Trump today talking about DEI hiring policies within the FAA and associating that with the cause of this accident. What do you say to that?"
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Todd Inman, NTSB Member:
"Well, unfortunately, I didn’t hear the remarks. I was briefing House and Senate members, but I believe chair would you like to take them."
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Jennifer Homendy, NTSB Chair:
"As part of any investigation. We look at the human, the machine and the environment. So, we will look at all the humans that were involved in this accident. Again, we will look at the aircraft. We will look at the helicopter. We will look at the environment in which they were operating in. That is part of that is standard in any part of our investigation.
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Reporter asking question:
"Has the flight data recorder been recovered yet? And what is the difficulty in a water disaster like this, which presents a very difficult environment for your investigators and the people out on the water?"
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Jennifer Homendy, NTSB Chair:
"Well, the question was on the flight data recorders, and we have not recovered the flight data recorders yet. We know they’re there. They are underwater. This is not unusual for the NTSB. We have many times recovered flight data recorders in water. We have our lab right here that is about a mile, from the NTSB. So it’s not unusual. And once we get those will be able to get those read and information from them to be able to provide further information to you. "
7. Wide, news conference
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Reporter asking question:
The president has stated what may have caused the crash. Stating common sense, does that affect your progress at all at this early stage?
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Jennifer Homendy, NTSB Chair:
"No. So the NTSB, we we are we conduct an a an important safety mission where we take a very careful approach. I’m sorry. The question was on speculating during investigations, which is we often hear about. What I will say is we look at facts on our investigation, and that will take some time. And at some point we’ll be able to provide that factual information, as member Inman said, and and provide that hopefully tomorrow."
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Reporter asking question:
"Have you been able to retrieve the black boxes from the helicopter as the military decided whether they’re going to give those to the NTSB? And what about the FAA tapes?"
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Todd Inman, NTSB Member:
12. Wide, news conference
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Todd Inman, NTSB Member:
"Right now, we’re going through the debris fields. Nothing we’ve seen would indicate that maybe slides are chutes were deployed. It was a very quick, rapid impact. But we’ve seen nothing in that regard so far from the evidence we had. But we still need to verify all of that information."
14. Members walk away
STORYLINE:
A midair collision between an Army helicopter and an American Airlines flight from Kansas killed all 67 people aboard the two aircraft, officials said Thursday, as they scrutinized the actions of the military pilot after the country’s worst aviation disaster in a generation.
National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy said Thursday at a press conference that “we look at facts on our investigation and that will take some time.”
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