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Some craziness has happened on the internet and I'm being named as one of the pilots of the DC crash,
Ellis wrote on Facebook on Friday Yeah, we were on short final and we saw flares from the opposite side of the Potomac.
The pilot who witnessed the devastating collision said Apparently both aircraft involved are in the river, a search and rescue will be ongoing.
An approach controller later said His mother, sister, and I are just absolutely devastated. We were talking to him just yesterday, and now we’ll never have the opportunity again.”
His family is also reeling from the devastating loss, with his father, Gary O’Hara, expressing his heartbreak You don't have to be a conspiracy theorist to find a Black Hawk on a vaguely defined CoG mission striking an airliner sus as hell.
one baffled X/Twitter user said There’s so many places they could have been doing training. Why did they have to do it at the end of the runways of DCA?”
Johnson continued, referring to the airport code of Reagan National airport The military tend to have a bit of a law-unto-themselves approach,
There was communication between the air traffic control tower and the helicopter pilot about whether they can see the CRJ [the American Eagle Bombardier jet] – did the controller give too much authority to the helicopter crew, or did the helicopter crew mistake what they saw?”
Given that these are everyday training flights over known congested areas,
he said, referring to a nearby antenna On 3/29/2024 at 1503 hours I observed two US army UH-60s nearly collide over 1-495 near Annandale,
he wrote in one complaint to the FAA from last March, noting they passed each other above the highway only “about 50-100 meters apart”. As we have said countless times before, DCA’s runway is already the busiest in the country,
Virginia US senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine and Maryland’s senator Chris Van Hollen and then senator Ben Cardin, all Democrats, said in a joint statement months before the law was passed We lost more than 60 people, and two aircraft, and we shut down a major airport, and it was completely avoidable,
We stand in solidarity with the people of the United States".
Prime Minister Modi offered heartfelt condolences and said Sadly, there are no survivors. This was a dark and excruciating night in our nation's capital and in our nation's history and a tragedy of terrible proportions as we grieve for every precious soul that has been taken from us so suddenly. This is really shaking a lot of people, including people from other nations."
Addressing a press briefing on the aviation disaster, Trump said I will be meeting with some people that were very badly hurt with their family member, obviously, but I'll be meeting with some of the families, yeah,
Pat 2-5 pass behind the CRJ.
Seconds later, the controller spoke again, requesting For some reason, you had a helicopter that was at the same height and going at an angle that was unbelievably bad when the air traffic controller said, 'Do you see − he was talking about − do you see him?'
Trump said from the White House briefing room But I believe that the air traffic controller did the best they could with the then circumstances or the means,
This was a disaster waiting to happen,
said Ross Aimer, a retired United Airlines captain and chief executive officer of Aero Consulting Experts The people in the helicopter should have seen where they were going,
