'Miracle on the Hudson' hero names possible cause of Washington, D.C. plane crash
The hero of the "Miracle on the Hudson" Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger told about the possible cause of the plane crash in Washington. This was reported by the Daily Mail on January 31.
At night, signal lights on air vehicles over water can be seen worse, which could have impaired pilots' perception of space, said Sullenberger, who landed the plane on the Hudson River in 2009.
"You always see other airplanes differently at night - basically all you can do is see the lights on them. You have to try to figure out: are they above you or below you? Or how far away? Or what direction they're traveling? It's more complicated at night," the pilot said.
He added that the recovered flight recorders will help determine the exact causes of the tragedy over the Potomac River.
On the night of January 30, an American Airlines passenger plane and a Black Hawk military helicopter collided near Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C. After the crash, they fell into the Potomac River. A total of 60 passengers and four crew members were aboard the plane. According to the latest data, more than 40 bodies of the victims were extracted from the river.
US President Donald Trump reported the absence of survivors in the plane crash in Washington. He called the crash terrible and said the tragedy could have been avoided if the control tower had told the helicopter crew to change course.
CNN reported the day before that one of the flight recorders (black boxes) of the crashed passenger plane was recovered from the Potomac River.
