Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board confirmed tonight that they have recovered all of the Black Boxes involved in the helicopter-airplane crash over Washington D.C. on Wednesday night, and have a "high level of confidence" that they will be able to fully recover the flight data from both the airplane and the Black Hawk helicopter.

Todd Inman, a board member of the NTSB, confirmed that the recovery team was able to recover both of the data recorders from the commercial airplane last night, and through a process of soaking the recorders in alcohol, will be able to recover both the flight data and the cockpit voice recorder, though the voice recorder has sustained some water damage. The NTSB will not be releasing the data they find on these recorders until they have a chance to synchronize the data and match it with other data points in their investigation, said Inman.

Tonight, recovery teams were also able to recover the black box from the Black Hawk helicopter and have begun the process of examining and treating the recorder as they did with the first two recorders. Inman confirmed that on visual inspection, the recorder did not appear damaged, but more processes will need to be done in order to recover the data.

Along with affirming their confidence in collecting flight data, officials also shared that the debris recovery mission will begin in earnest on Sunday and will continue through next week, pending weather and other conditions.

Throughout the briefing, Inman affirmed that the NTSB would not be releasing their findings to the public quickly, as they still have more to investigate and have come to no conclusions about the cause of the accident yet.

"NTSB is an independent bipartisan board. Our job is to find the facts. Regardless of what anyone may be saying, our investigators never want to see this happen again."

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has just tweeted his understanding of the sequence of Wednesday night's tragic events, based on briefings from the National Transportation Safety Board and Federal Aviation Administration.

"Flight 5342 was initially scheduled to land on Runway 1 at Reagan but was redirected to Runway 33," Cruz posted on X. "Meanwhile, the helicopter was traveling along Route 1 before being shifted to Route 4.

"We know that air traffic control confirmed with the helicopter crew that they had visual contact with the plane. Controllers then instructed the helicopter to move behind the plane. However, instead of complying, the helicopter moved in front of the aircraft.

"The two aircraft collided mid-air, resulting in a catastrophic explosion."

Cruz is the chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation.

President Donald Trump doubled down on his comments that the Black Hawk chopper that collided with a passenger flight over Washington, DC, was "too high" — while also blasting the Biden administration for the deadly crash.

"The Black Hawk was too high. It was above the 200 limit by double, shouldn't have been there. And there were some other mistakes made, too, and I pointed them out also, and I was right on all of it."

Trump then blamed the Biden administration.

"This was all caused by bad rules, regulations and other things by Biden, the Biden administration, and when you look at the way they ran things, in fact, if you look we hired — one of the first things I told him to do is get talented people in those beautiful towers overlooking runways," he said.

"You better get them in there fast because we don't have people there that are qualified. And you knew that because planes were landing very, very late, they were circling all over the place. We had people that didn't know what the hell they were doing."

He vowed that "it won't be happening again. And this was all because of weak rules in the Biden administration. And we're just not going to let that kind of thing happen again."

Starting Friday, the Federal Aviation Administration will prohibit all helicopter traffic in the area over the Potomac River and around Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

“Today’s decision will immediately help secure the airspace near Reagan Airport, ensuring the safety of airplane and helicopter traffic,” said U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy.

The ban does not include helicopters flying in for life-saving medical support, active law enforcement, air defense or presidential transport, according to the Department of Transportation. The restrictions will remain in place until the National Transportation Safety Board finishes its investigation of Wednesday's collision.

Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport is open and continuing to operate at a reduced capacity, with two runways estimated to remain closed through the end of the week as the recovery effort continues, said Terry Liercke, the vice president and manager the airport.

When asked about concerns the airport has had around air control staffing, Liercke said the airport has no responsibility in air control staffing and that the airport follows all FAA guidelines.

“U.S. air space is one of the safest in the world,” Liercke said during a press conference, but did not answer follow up questions relating to the investigation and culpability.

Salvage crews plan to begin recovering the wreckage of the airplane from the Potomac River on Saturday, DC Fire and EMS Chief John Donnelly Sr. said Friday.

First responders on site believe that in order to recover any more bodies from the Washington, DC, airplane collision, they will need to remove the wreckage from the water.

“I believe for us to recover the rest of the remains, that we are going to need to get the fuselage out of the water,” Donnelly said.

Donnelly announced that recovery missions are ongoing, with a focus today on the helicopter wreckage. The team of over 500 first responders include dive teams, sonar scanners and a salvage crew which aims to recover the wreckage from the water starting tomorrow.

Salvage crews arrived on the scene Friday, according to Donnelly, and are currently assessing the timeline and steps forward in order to begin recovering the wreckage.

Though the weather in the area has been rainy and slowing down the recovery, Donnelly says that it will ultimately not impede the first responders from recovering the victims and the wreckage.

The FAA has "indefinitely shut down all low-altitude helicopter flights" near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) said Friday.

"The FAA was right to take this action, and I expect these restrictions to be in effect until investigations are complete," Moran said in a post on X.

Washington, D.C., Fire Chief John Donnelly Sr. said remains of 41 victims have been located and 28 have been identified.

Donnelly said during a news conference that 18 families have received next of kin notifications as of Friday morning.

Melissa Jane Nicandri, 28, of Brooklyn was among the victims of Wednesday night's shocking plane-helicopter crash.

Nicandri was “everything that anyone could hope for with a daughter — beautiful, smart, funny, kind and generous,” her family told CNN in a statement. “Melissa had an adventurous spirit and will be missed forever.”

Mayor Eric Adams paid tribute to Nicandri in a post on X. "Today, we learned that one of the 67 victims of the heartbreaking crash on Wednesday was a fellow New Yorker, Melissa Jane Nicandri. At just 28 years old, her life was tragically cut short," he wrote. "My heart and my prayers go out to her loved ones."

One other New Yorker — Jonathan Campos, a pilot on the American Airlines flight — has been identified among the 67 people killed in the stunning disaster. He was raised in Brooklyn.

At the White House, press secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked about President Trump's Truth Social post from this morning and whether he was implying incompetence or malice by the military helicopter's crew.

"The president is simply stating what he said in that Truth Social post," Leavitt said, "which is that the helicopter was flying higher than it should have been, which is one of the reasons that led to this collision."

"The other reasons for that are still being investigated, and I will let that investigation play out."

Federal Aviation Administration employees — including air traffic controllers — received a mass email encouraging them to resign and take a job in the “private sector” or travel to a “dream destination” less than a day after the disastrous Washington, DC, plane crash, according to a report Thursday.

The Office of Personnel Management encouraged FAA employees to look for new jobs outside the government where they can be more productive in an email sent just before 8:30 p.m. Thursday, according to the New York Times.

“We encourage you to find a job in the private sector as soon as you would like to do so,” the email instructed. “The way to greater American prosperity is encouraging people to move from lower productivity jobs in the public sector to higher productivity jobs in the private sector.”

It then went on to explain that if workers quit, they could take a second job or travel while still on taxpayers’ payroll for months before leaving for good.

The message reiterated an offer sent by the FAA to workers earlier this week, the paper reported. Federal workers in other agencies also received the email. 

FAA didn’t immediately return The Post’s request for comment Friday.