The crews that work to erase and recover victims of the Potomac River in Washington, DC, after the outdoor collision of January 29 of an American Jet Airlines and a helicopter of the army of the army of the army United States Army on February 6, according to the United States Army Engineers Corps. He then hopes to change the cranes operations in the helicopter wreck and the large debris cleaning cleaning.
All four JET and 60 passengers’ Airline employees, and the three -person crew of the helicopter died in the fall. With the 64 victims of Crash recovered and identified from February 6, he has learned that some of the on board had long -term or early connections with engineering and construction.
The Regional Jet, a CRJ700 bombier, had flown from Wichita, Kan., And approached Ronald Reagan Washington’s National Airport when he collided with a UH-60 Black Hawk on the river nearby. of the airport, according to the federal administration of aviation. The helicopter was flying a training mission for Fort Belvoir, Va., The army said.
Jesse Pitcher, 30, seen here on a hunting trip to Kansas, was a member of the eight -year -old Lambolas union based in Maryland who had won a travel -level license and started a contracting company in 2020 With a partner. Image: Its Gofundme page https://www.gofundme.com/f/gofundme-for-the-pitcher-family
Industry connections
A spokesman for Kiewit Corp confirmed the death of Robert Prewitt, a former member of the Local Ironworkers Union ‘Local 5 in Largo, Md., Who was a superintendent of the subsidiary ICT – The Industrial Co., based in Maryland. . He “started with our company as an iron worker in 2016 and in 2021 accepted a staff position as superintendent,” he said. “We are deeply saddened by the sudden and tragic loss.”
The prewitt age and his current work of the project could not be confirmed, nor the reason for his trip to the plane, which some media outlets stated related to business.
The United Plumbers and Pipefitters of the Union (UA) association confirmed on January 31 that six of those who died are members of the current Union based in two Maryland premises, belonging to 602 venues based in Capitol Heights and one to local 5 based in Lanham. The website of Local 602 says that it has more than 6,000 years of travel, learning and assistants working for about 200 regional companies in mechanical construction and related areas.
Members returned from an annual hunting trip to Kansas, according to several media reports, but the union did not confirm.
In a publication on social networks, UA President Mark Mcmanus and business manager at 602 premises Chris Madello said of his members: “Who they were and what they wanted for all of us will never be forgotten.” They said that financial support could be provided by donations to the charitable confidence of the Union.
Several UA members and other flight members had built races as construction field managers and as Washington, DC, region, region contractors.
Jesse Pitcher, 30, was an eight -year -old local member who had won a travel -level license and started a plumbing company in 2020 with a partner after a pandemic dismissal. He was also building his own house, according to his father’s comments Jameson Pitcher and his partner Charlie Gray at Wichita Eagle and New York Times.
Charles “Charlie” McDaniel, 44, was a 22-year-old local 602-year-old member who was the Vice President and Director General of American Mechanical Services, Laurel, MD. and learning.
Jonathan Boyd, 40, with 20 years as a local member of 602, was a senior vice president of the Mechanical Installation Firm and Plenary Heffron Co., in Kensington, MD.
Michael “Mikey” Stovall, 40, a local member of the 602 -year -old, was superintendent in Gaghan Mechanical, Alexandria, who does general construction work and HVAC in the DC metro area. With Stovall on the hunting trip, James “Tommy” Clagett, who did not appear as a member of the union, but was the executive vice president of Gaghan Mechanical and veteran of the 16 -year -old company.
Among the dead were Alexander “Alex” Huffman, 34, a member of the nine -year -old UA, said the union.
The youngest victim with a link from the industry was Grace Maxwell, 20, a young man of mechanical engineering at the University of Cedarville, located in the north -East Cincinnati in Greene County, Ohio, according to an official at the School that spoke with a local television station. According to media reports, he was described by the President of the University, Thomas White, as a “attentive and quiet student leader who helped teach other students on engineering”.
Recovery works continue
Colonel Francis Pera, commander of the Baltimore Corps District, told journalists on February 2 that all the recovered material will be transported to a hangar for the National Transport Safety Board’s research. “We are extremely deliberate about how we approach this,” he said.
Related to the 12 of 67 people killed in the collision that were not yet recovered at the beginning of February 3, Pera said that the crews will stop the work at any time the human remains are found during the operation, of way they can be recovered.
The Coast Guard established a temporary security area in the area, closing the river to traffic north of the Woodrow Wilson bridge during the operation.
The body is working with the U.S. Navy supervisor of Salfege and Diving and United States Costera Guard in the recovery effort, along with the contractor Donjon Marine Co., based in Hillside, Donjon Marine Co., according to a representative of the body district. Donjon previously worked on Wreckage’s elimination of Francis Scott Key’s collapsed bridge in Baltimore.
After recovering the ray, the crews used by cranes plans to change the recovery of the helicopter, according to the body. Officials are planning to demobilize -on February 12.
