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Aviation experts were struggling on Thursday to understand what went wrong after a U.S. Army helicopter collided with a passenger jet in near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday night, with both aircraft plunging into the Potomac River. Former airline pilot Daniel Bubb, who specializes in aviation and airport history, told Reuters it was difficult to comprehend how the helicopter pilot could not see the American Airlines jet during its final approach to the runway. Jonathan Koziol, chief of staff of the Army's aviation directorate, told reporters that the instructor pilot, who was the designated pilot in command, had 1,000 flying hours while the other pilot had 500 hours. The third soldier was a crew chief, typically riding in the back of the helicopter. In relation to training hours, another aviation expert, Mike Ginter, Senior Vice President at Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association Air Safety Institute, said, "It's excellent training that the military pilots receive in all branches of the service. So I would probably encourage listeners not to, not to cast an assessment on 500 or 1000 hours of training." Ginter added that the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) would have access to a wealth of data to determine the cause, including radar images, cockpit recordings, and data recorders known as black boxes. A dive team recovered one of the two data recorders from the American Airlines regional passenger's plane on Wednesday (January 29), CBS News reported. Authorities have said there were no survivors of the crash and the cause is under investigation. The airport is located in Arlington, Virginia, across the river from Washington. (Production: Liliana Salgado) For more ABS-CBN News videos, click the link below:    • ABS-CBN News   For more Breaking News & Live Coverage videos, click the link below:    • Breaking News & Live Coverage   For more latest news and analysis from ABS-CBN News videos, click the link below:    • The latest news and analysis from ABS-CBN ...   For more News Digital News Raw Cuts, click the link below:    • News Digital Raw Cuts OLD   Subscribe to the ABS-CBN News channel! - http://bit.ly/TheABSCBNNews Watch full episodes on iWantTFC for FREE here: http://iwanttfc.com Visit our website at http://news.abs-cbn.com Facebook:   / abscbnnews   Twitter:   / abscbnnews   Instagram:   / abscbnnews   #ABSCBN #LatestNews #ABSCBNNews