The plane crash investigation by the Department of Transportation and the US Army is expected to take three to five weeks, former Assistant Deputy Under Secretary for the Air Force Retired Brigadier General John Teichert says.
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00:00Yeah, the tragedy happened, we were being told by one of our eyewitnesses just a moment
00:05ago, very short distance away from the Pentagon.
00:09And ironically, it's the Pentagon that's carrying out the investigation into this.
00:13They've launched the investigation.
00:14How long do these investigations typically take?
00:17When might we have some more sort of concrete answers as to what happened?
00:21Well, Tom, you're right about the geography.
00:23This crash happened about three miles away from the Capitol, the White House, and the
00:28Pentagon.
00:29There are going to be two different investigations that go on here.
00:33One is going to be led by the Department of Transportation, or the Transportation Safety
00:37Board, and then the other one will be run by the United States Army.
00:42And they typically take three, four, or five weeks until they have gathered the data, they
00:49have assessed what happened, and then most importantly, have assessed why it happened
00:53to get to root causes and causal factors to try to prevent anything like this from happening
00:59again.