Latest on the DC Medevac copter crash


Investigators aren't ruling anything out as they try to
determine what caused a helicopter to crash into the Potomac
River near the Wilson Bridge.

Ellen Engleman Conners is chairwoman of the National
Transportation Safety Board.

She says operator failure is one possibility, along with
the weather, tall cranes in the area for building the new
bridge, and birds, which could've become tangled in the
chopper's engine. The wreckage is being taken to the NTSB
academy in Ashburn, where investigators will take a closer
look at it.

She also says four frames of a highway video taken on
the Wilson Bridge will be examined at a lab in Washington.
Although the video quality is poor, Conners says it appears
to show the chopper losing altitude.

Authorities are also inspecting five cranes along the
bridge, to determine if they might have been hit by the
chopper. The two tallest cranes will be examined at seven
am Wednesday.

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What kind of birds fly at night?

As the copter (all copters) approached this area near National
Airport, they must fly at 200 feet, however the cranes being
used to build the new spans of the Woodrow Wilson Bridge are
300 feet high .... pretty dangerous if you ask me!

KM