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I-285 plane crash: 'Nothing can be moved'

By Rodney Thrash
May 8, 2015

Asked how his crews would go about removing the crash debris from the interstate, DeKalb County fire Capt. Eric Jackson said: “We’re not going to do a thing. This is a federal investigation, so they will have the appropriate authority” to clean up the crash site.

Jackson said: “It’s really important because this is now an investigation, and nothing can be moved, nothing can be touched, nothing can be altered. With the exception of life-saving and firefighting purposes, everything has to stay exactly where it is.”

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Rodney Thrash is the morning breaking news coach for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He has been with the paper since November 2013.

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