Black Hawk knew plane was in area before crash: Transportation chief

(NewsNation) — Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy revealed determination was connection betwixt an American Airlines formation and a subject Black Hawk helicopter that collided connected Wednesday night.

The determination rider pitchy was carrying 64 people en way from Kansas earlier crashing into a chopper carrying 3 soldiers, sending some aircraft into the icy Potomac River adjacent Washington, D.C.

"I don't privation to accidental excessively overmuch connected the connection betwixt the chopper and the tower, and the hose and the tower, but I volition accidental this: determination was communication," Duffy said successful a quality league Thursday.

"It was, I would say, modular communication. So, determination was not a breakdown ... successful connection betwixt the subject chopper and the American Airlines flight."

When quizzed further, Duffy reiterated determination was connection betwixt the craft and the tower, adding: "I would accidental the chopper was alert determination was a level successful the area."

As of Thursday morning, astatine slightest 28 bodies had been recovered from the Potomac River. There are nary expected survivors.