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The search for the bodies of those who died in the DC plane crash last week continues.
On Wednesday (January 29), an Army helicopter carrying three soldiers and an plane with 64 people on board
The two aircraft then plummeted into the Potomac River, where rescue teams are still working to recover the deceased.
At the time of writing, 55 of the 67 people who died have been recovered from the water.
The conditions the rescue teams are working in have been sponse Expert, BBC News: “There’s ice in the river, it’s particularly cold and that makes it very challenging to [rescue] crews.
“There’s not a lot of time to really try and locate any survivors and rescue them because of the cold.”
The waters are so cold that one diver from the Metropolitan Department had to be rushed to hospital to be treated for a ‘hypothermia situation’.
The diver in question has since been released and is ‘doing fine’, said Fire and EMS Chief, John Donnelly.
Emergency response units search the crash site of the American Airlines plane on the Potomac River (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
“We’re happy to report that he’s doing fine, and that that’s the only injury we have the today,” the chief shared, NBC News.
He added yesterday (February 2): “For the rest of the day, the salvage crews are continuing to survey the site and get ready for tomorrow.”
Elsewhere, rescue personnel have spoken out on the ‘horrors’ they’ve seen so far.
Brian Entin, from NewsNation, reported that a firefighter had told him that they’re all ’emotionally wiped out after seeing the horror [of the crash] up close’.
In a follow-up tweet, Entin went on to share: “The firefighter I met explained that the water is actually very clear. With flashlights they saw horrible things when they arrived.”
Many questions remain about what happened last week to cause the fatal crash, but there are hopes that
Speaking about the importance of the devices, Senior Army aviation adviser Jonathan Koziol said: “There’s a lot of experts out there, but until we get the data from the black boxes, that’s the only truth, and we won’t know that for a little bit.”
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