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Two black boxes recovered from crashed jet, to be sent to NTSB for analysis
Federal investigators are now searching for answers after all 67 passengers were killed when an American Airlines flight struck an Army helicopter over the Potomac River near Washington D.C. The cause of the collision is unclear. A preliminary report by the Federal Aviation Administration indicated that air traffic control staffing was “not normal” at the time of the crash. There were not two controllers in the air traffic control tower, leaving one person handling both planes and helicopters. Two ''black boxes,'' or flight data recorders, from the American Airlines plane were recovered from the crash site.