(31 Jan 2025)
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Arlington, Virginia – 31 January 2025
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Todd Inman, National Transportation Safety Board member:
"Let me just start with it. As usual, our hearts go out to all the families of the victims. In fact, I just spent the last several hours with them before we came here. And I apologize that we had to move this back. But they are one of our primary concerns, along with making sure we get factual information out."
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Todd Inman, National Transportation Safety Board member:
"As I said, we did family briefings last night and today there are over 100 family members that are now in the area receiving briefings and as part of a legislative requirement, receiving family assistance. They have been briefed by the medical examiner, the fire chief, NTSB chairman and myself, along with the family assistant unit from PSA Airlines."
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Todd Inman, National Transportation Safety Board member:
"The ATC group – Air Traffic Control – has been conducting interviews today. They’re ongoing tonight. They will be ongoing for probably the next few days. We’ve had full cooperation in getting the witnesses that we need to to gain those interviews. We will then take that information and match it with other data that we’re receiving and if necessary, conduct follow-up interviews at a later time."
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Todd Inman, National Transportation Safety Board member:
"I want to clarify one thing. There’s been a lot of questions and discussion regarding manifest. Let me make this very clear. The NTSB will not and has not released a manifest. We have not in our history, not in our past, we will not be in this accident. In fact, there’s specific congressional language that whenever it is in our possession, it is not available through the Freedom of Information Act. It will not be included in our report. We will not be putting any names of any of the victims. Any release of that information will come from other individuals or groups.
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Todd Inman, National Transportation Safety Board member:
"Lastly on recorders, the Sikorsky (Black Hawk helicopter), where the CRJ (jet) has two separate recorders, the Sikorsky has a combined cockpit voice recorder and digital flight data recorder. It’s in one box. I can report to you now, we have recovered the Sikorsky black box. It is safely at the NTSB headquarters. It will begin an evaluation just as the other two recorders did last night to determine when and how to take action. I can tell you from a visual inspection, we saw no exterior damage that would indicate that it was compromised at this time. So we have a high level of confidence that we will be able to have a full extraction from that as well."
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STORYLINE:
Investigators are seeking clues into this week’s deadly midair collision, the deadliest aviation disaster in the U.S. almost a quarter century.
National Transportation Safety Board member Todd Inman said he spent several hours with the victims’ families Friday.
“They are one of our primary concerns, along with making sure we get factual information out,” he said.
He said there are now over 100 family members in the area receiving briefings and assistance.
Inman also said the black box from the Black Hawk helicopter that collided with a commercial jetliner near Washington has been recovered.
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