Hi there, everyone. Happy Friday. It's 4 o'clock in New York. In the next hour, we will get another update from NTSB investigators with new details on the deadliest U.S. air crash in 20 years.

There is new information to tell you about, though, the mid-air collision

of a military helicopter and an American Airlines passenger plane has claimed 67 innocent lives

and new footage has emerged of the moment of impact that sent both aircrafts hurtling into

the Potomac. Emergency crews have recovered the remains of at least 41 of the victims.

28 of them have been positively identified. The next of kin have been informed for 18 victims

and 26 have yet to be found. Investigators say that they hope to locate the remaining

victims when they salvage the jet's fuselage.

Investigators have recovered both black boxes, the cockpit voice recorder and the flight

data recorder from the passenger jet, which are now at NTSB labs.

The NTSB telling NBC news that the black boxes are in, quote, good condition, and the data

is right now being analyzed. The search for the

helicopter's black box is ongoing. There's new reporting that suggests that staffing at the air traffic

control tower at Reagan National Airport was not normal for the time of day and volume of traffic.

Quote, the controller who was handling helicopters in the airport's vicinity

was also instructing planes that were landing and departing jobs that are typically assigned to two

controllers rather than one. The FAA has announced it is indefinitely restricting helicopter

flights near Reagan National Airport. Meanwhile, there are questions about the

Black Hawk helicopter and whether it was flying too high. New York Times reports this, quote,

among the questions facing investigators is whether the Black Hawk helicopter left its designated

flight path as it approached the airport. Four people briefed on the matter said that the

helicopter appeared to have been flying higher than air traffic control had approved and that it was

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