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to happen next in this phase, and that is very valentine, former administrator for the federal aviation authorityyou for joining us on bbc news. a big body of work lies ahead at this point. can you talk us through where you would see this investigation focusing, given the bit of information that we know at this time? >> i think you just turn the people from the ntsb -- they did an excellent job of explaining the process by which they go through doing investigations. and i give credit to the ntsb for the job the organization has done over the decades. they do a great job. as one of the persons mentioned, you look at the airplanes, the pilots, the environment. there is not that much mystery regarding the airplanes, and it was a midair collision. it was not an engine failure or a system failure. that particular thing. the area around washington, for anyone who is not there or worked there, is one where if you step outside a building, you see planes taking off and landing from reagan national. you see helicopters from the military, the government, zipping around the airspace as well. it is a very bus

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to abort its landing at reagan national airport the federal aviation authority, from another angle, we can see the helicopter the mid air collision happened on the approach to our correspondent, carl nasman. still a long to go with this recovery still a long to go with this recove operation. t this recovery operation. there is. this recovery operation. there is- those _ this recovery operation. there is. those teams _ this recovery operation. there is. those teams were - to l gghose teams were ableio back to work today after get back to work today after the sun came out. it's warming up the sun came out. it's warming up a bit which is good news. they have been battling some tough conditions, notjust the darkness but the cold water icy conditions. this is an ll.l ll. llllllll "5sz l ll. where l'll ll llllllll 1l"ll 'l ll where its areafflhere'ita lha'h�*m “ll-high but area�*s-here�*s l“a"an nhc“ but makes the helps but makes the water really murky. a crucial step, those black boxes regovering those black boxes flight recorders which lll flilee fftfi’rllrl elftltl’ "" ” data lhll flilee ff

30 st executive orders or during his new trends for secretary and the acting head of the federal aviation authority to examine the hiring and operational practices that may have been impacted by d. e. i diversity, equity, and inclusion. this is him doubling dying of what he said, saying that the accident that was caused by those policies put in place by the democrats. but of course, he's got no evidence of that, only has in his own what so not use confidence was a feeling that it's common sense to think that way, even though he's decided what caused this crush before he's even got the report. and he admits that they are still investigating what happened here that his comments blaming democrats was seized, seized on by the head of the democrats in the senate, chuck schumer, we said that the comments ton, the stomach, that he expected pundits to pedal conspiracy theories, but not the president of the united states, but we've seen that from donald trump before remember, after he won the election in 2016, he immediately ordered a big in quite a, into fraudulent votes being costs around the country, whi

we have to remember of course, the just a few days ago, he fired the head of the federal aviation authority and also sacked. the number of government workers without replacing them. and so people are saying that donald trump jumped onto this and i could not as comfortable chief, but blaming and chief to defend any possible thing just being pointed at him and what his administration are doing in the early days of the time in the white house all right, so the investigation very much underway already. what's areas when it comes to, i saw a lot of things to look at. and of course it's how does the planes approach what instructions they were given? what they said to the control to the black boxes will play an important part of best. they will tell them absolutely everything there is to know about what happened on the plane from at the height. they were flying to the communications that they made, but they'll also look at other things, the backgrounds of the pilot site. everything will be led by the n t s b at the national transport safety board. they will look at this in a way that just they don

preliminary review, though, we should say that staffing is permissible under the current federal aviation authority standards. but the fundamental thing to say to you at this hour is that we do not know what caused this tragedy. the fact of the matter is that air travel in the united states is incredibly safe, and in large part through a miracle of regulation that is executed every day by career civil servants. the last major air disaster in this country was in buffalo back in 2009. between then and now, we have seen 150 million commercial flights in the us alone. and as the cliche and newsrooms go, we don't cover the planes that land. but because air travel is so safe, it is almost by definition going to be the case that when something goes this horribly wrong, there will be a bunch of factors at play and we just do not know yet what they are. now, last night, in the wake of this and the early reports, we saw the kind of speculation we often see after a tragedy in this age. people noted correctly that last week president trump dismantled a key aviation safety advisory committee. they also pointed

authorized by. the federal aviation. >> administration for research and, quote. >> various other reasons.>> unexplained nighttime sightings. eventually led to an faa. >> order banning drones. >> in the airspace. >> of several new jersey cities. >> and california governor gavin. newsom launched a fundraiser. >> today for los angeles fire recovery. >> l.a. rises. >> pledges to help affected communities rebuild. >> it was started today with a $100 million. >> donation from the dodgers. >> the district of palisades and eaton fires are now nearly 100% contained. together, they destroyed more than 16,000. structures and claimed at least 29 lives. brian, back over to you. >> at least we know now the drones actually existed. julia boorstin. thank you very much. in the flesh. all right. >> let's talk. >> power with. >> one. >> of wall street's most powerful people. i get choked up just saying that. helima croft of rbc capital markets speaks to literally all the power players all over the world. on your way to dc. you stopped in to see us and we appreciate it. obviously, there's a lot to talk about

federal aviation assets. they can be available, but not be able to be operational if the conditions don't allow it. he has authorizedhose federal fire fighting tools in a variety of ways. what is most striking about this is rarely is the president already in a location where a natural disaster or a tragic event of national proportions hits. typically, we get word the president is being briefed here at the white house. and some days later he goes to those scenes. this is sort of flipped on its head because as you point out, he already had scheduled events in the region and his hotel is within view of some of the smoke and the broad los angeles county area. and it has hampered some of the movements related to the president. the other thing we always hear from the white house is they don't want to take any action that impedes the need for local law enforcement that need to be attacking the issue at hand. so that presents a challenge here. he is expected to have a briefing with california fire officials. he has been kept in the loop at his hotel throughout the hours. according to the aides we have been talking to. and h

federal aviation administration, the national transportation safety board, american airlines and beyond. right now, we're just getting very early preliminary information from the metropolitan washington airports authoritytself, which operates reagan national airport. they say there is an incident at the airport right now, but things are still developing all the time, and we're trying to figure out exactly what the circumstances were here. if this was a crash of a commercial airliner. that has not happened in the united states in about 15 years. the last major crash of a commercial airliner in the u.s. was the colgan air crash of 2009, left an indelible mark on on aviation, left sweeping regulatory changes that are still being dealt with in aviation to this day. it is a really, really, really busy slice of airspace, and i can tell you as a pilot, as a flight instructor, as somebody who has a small airplane at an airport not too far away from reagan national airport, it is a very restricted piece of airspace, but it is also very busy with commercial traffic, also very busy with helicopters, not only from local law enforcement, but also military and government agencies. we just saw in dc. if you've ever s

he blamed dea hiring in the federal aviation authority.med joe biden, he blamed barack obama. and he also said, you know, hundreds, tens of hundreds of millions of americans are mourning today. our you know, this is a very difficult time for america. and we know that the people who are on that plane, those 64 people were from russia, were from america, from all over the world. we had figure skaters on that plane, the american figure skating team, but also the russian figure skating team. so this really is a tragedy here in the united states. people are mourning. it's a very difficult time in washington dc, and people are demanding answers as to how this incident happened. how did this plane crash into this military helicopter? how did this blackhawk helicopter not see this plane as it was landing into the airport on the tarmac? so authorities currently investigating, they have launched various investigations through the federal aviation authority. trump has appointed a commissioner to investigate this tragedy. and in the next few days and

close to where, where we're standing, where was, where i'm sitting right, right now the federal aviation authority has actually now said that it was me the collision that was a passenger blame. it was american airlines flight 5342. so it was a regional flight from wichita, kansas to, to reagan national airport, using one of the smaller across a bone, bought a c, r, j 700. those can carry 66 to 78 people. we understand initial reports and 60 were on board. it would seem that was from the flight amount of fast actually. so as a sizable number of people are boarded, crashed with a black coke ministry, a helicopter upon approach around 9 p, i'm local that 0200 g m t 's or about an hour ago. and both the aircraft then ended up in the potomac river. that's why there is this is normally the response that you may be able to see right now of police emergency vehicles and also 5 birds crews called birds as we believe that both of these aircraft are in the river. so that is a numerous can. so now, and that's kind of innovation, we've been able to piece so far. we already know, frankly we have more questions