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NTSB confident black boxes from both aircraft will provide information about deadly DC crash

By Jack Birle
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The National Transportation Safety Board has located black boxes from the American Airlines flight and the Army helicopter that collided Wednesday evening outside Washington, D.C.

NTSB board member Todd Inman announced that investigators had found two separate recorders from the American Airlines Bombardier CRJ-700 series plane and one from the Army Black Hawk Sikorsky H-60. Inman said they have a “high level of confidence” that they will be able to recover data from all of the recorders.

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