02-03-25 YMS Investigators have spent the weekend combing through the wreckage of two deadly plane crashes last week. National correspondent Rory O’Neill explains what they have learned.

Investigators have spent the weekend combing through the wreckage of two deadly plane crashes last week. National correspondent Rory O’Neill explains what they have learned.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Previously on Your Morning Show with Michael dil Choono.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
The biggest stories heading into the weekend and throughout the
weekend were both crash sites. Roy O'Neil are Your Morning
Show national correspondent is joining us as investigators spent a
very busy weekend and black boxes have been acquired and
information is starting to build.

Speaker 3 (00:18):
Rory, what's the latest.

Speaker 4 (00:19):
Well in the Philadelphia crash, they do have a black box,
but boy, not a whole lot of answers as to
what caused this lear Jet fifty five to nosedive about
two minutes after taking off. It was a plane filled
with six Mexican nationals heading back to Mexico after a
young girl had received extensive medical care.

Speaker 3 (00:39):
They are in Philadelphia.

Speaker 4 (00:40):
Six people on the plane were killed, as well as
one person on the ground.

Speaker 3 (00:44):
Really, this one's.

Speaker 4 (00:46):
Going to be tough to figure out, so those black
boxes are going to be critical to figuring out why
that plane nosedive the way it did.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
The early working numbers are that the plane had achieved
about fifteen hundred feet of altitude, was only in the
air about thirty seconds before nose diving straight to the ground.
There was a lot of speculation looking at the different videos,
one in particular that looked like the plane you couldn't
tell if it was light reflecting or if the plane
was on fire. We do know that they were not

(01:15):
responding to the towers, so there has been some question
about whether or not there was an explosion and were
these pilots incapacitated, and that's what led to the nose dive.
You know, I don't think that'll be on the black box.
I mean you'll get altitude and then you'll get what happened,
and you'll get anything they may have said, right.

Speaker 4 (01:35):
Yes, if that lear jet has a contpit voice recorder.
But yeah, you're also looking at whether or not there's
a law if there were an explosion, you might be
able to measure a loss of hydraulic pressure and get
some indicator. But when you listen to the video as well,
you can hear it sounds like you can hear the
engines revving up, so it seemed that the pilots were
trying to do something to try to get that plane

(01:58):
or keep that plane up in the air.

Speaker 3 (01:59):
But yeah, again a lot of questions about this. The
only thing over I think the more video comes out too.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
Yeah, and by the way, that black box has recovered
eight feet underground. That'll give you an idea of the impact.
But there was some indications that there was low cloud cover,
which brings in, you know, spatial awareness kind of a
thing where because it does seem like the engines were reving,
the plane was not just speeding up from gravity but

(02:26):
from acceleration as well.

Speaker 4 (02:28):
Tell you the other on Now you also have you
pilots who may not be familiar with that airport as well.

Speaker 3 (02:33):
That could also be a factor in some of this.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
Yeah, as for the other fifty five of the sixty
seven victims, bodies have been recovered, they're gonna they're starting
even as we speak. His sun up is upon the
Potomac to remove wreckage, and there's optimism to get the
remaining twelve bodies.

Speaker 4 (02:49):
Yeah, hopefully obviously sooner the better for the sake of
the family's involved here.

Speaker 3 (02:54):
But yeah, they are.

Speaker 4 (02:56):
Making significant progress and the investigation continues to focus on
the altitude of that helicopter. There were some conflicting data
points the data recorder, perhaps suggesting the plane was at
three hundred and twenty five feet, but some radar reading
that showed the helicopter was closer to two hundred, So
we're trying to square that circle.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
But the more accurate would be the plane black box, right.

Speaker 3 (03:18):
We think so. But yeah, and then why you know
why Yeah, again.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
As it turns out there was a black box in
this black Hawk, So I mean, eventually they were at
the same altitude they hit each other. But yeah, the
the NTSP was you know, it was a very confusing.
I think it was Saturday night news conference because normally,
you know, you get a preliminary report after a month,
and you get conclusive report after about a year, sometimes longer.
They're trying to be transparent and get immediate information. But yeah,

(03:44):
so the black box shows that the plane was at
three hundred and twenty five give or take twenty five
either way, and then the radar, which is not hasn't
been confirmed yet, showed the helicopter at two hundreds. So
why the disparity, And well, that disparity when they further
examined the control tower radar and enhance it, and then
when they get the black box in the black Hawk,
what will those numbers be because that.

Speaker 3 (04:06):
Was a big point. That was the point. Yeah, right, But.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
In general, I know, we're down to thirty seconds.

Speaker 3 (04:14):
But in general, everybody's just kind.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
Of looking at this, going of these corridors and only
one hundred feet, you know, separating them.

Speaker 3 (04:21):
Is that a good idea?

Speaker 2 (04:22):
I think that will be looked at and NTSB recommendations
and FAA implementation. That's always the battle. After the case,
with a high profile one like this, we'll see what happens.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
Miss a little, miss a lot, miss a lot, and
we'll miss you. It's your Morning Show with Michael del Churno.