DC plane crash: ATC staffing levels under scrutiny as barges arrive to help salvage ops
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Barges are expected to arrive in the D.C area on Saturday to help with salvage operations from Wednesday's deadly plane crash at Regan National Airport as investigator's probe the cause of a collision that left 67 people dead.
At least 40 bodies had been pulled from the Potomac River on Friday. Both black boxes have been recovered. Michael Dorgan is a writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business.
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A new report by the New York Post suggests that the Black Hawk was flying nearly twice as high as it should have been and that the helicopter was not equipped with a new technology that would have alerted air traffic control to its dangerously deviated path. Meanwhile, a preliminary report indicated that staffing levels at the time of the collision were "not normal for the time of day and volume of traffic."
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