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I'm just grateful that I am okay and hopeful that they are able to find a lot of survivors in the Potomac." ... Prayers for everyone who was on that flight, and prayers for their family."
He expressed gratitude and hope ... Offering condolences, Moyer added I didn't think anything of it because of the winds, but I did notice that people started murmuring and then the captain came on and said there was an incident with a helicopter
Our plane didn't have fuel to continue circling, so we were diverted to the other Washington DC airport, Dulles, which is a really quick trip, we touched down here, probably 15 minutes later."
And by that time, people on board had to started to ascertain that there was a much bigger incident involving a commercial flight."
As the situation unfolded, Moyer explained My flight was scheduled to touch down at 8:55pm, and that incident was at 8:53pm, we were following them into runway 33 at DC National Reagan, so I'm feeling like I was within two minutes of... death."
We are going to conduct a thorough investigation of this entire tragedy, looking at the facts,
We have not recovered the flight data recorders yet. We know they’re there. They are underwater. This is not unusual for the NTSB. We have many times recovered flight data recorders underwater,
As part of any investigation, we look at the human, the machine and the environment,
There’s a lag in vision as the night vision goggles recalibrate from looking inside at the instruments to back outside,
Kimbrough, who flew from 1978 to 1986, said ... he said, potentially making objects initially seem farther away than they are We don't want her to hear from anybody else at school, so we had a conversation this morning. At first, she didn't quite understand what we were trying to tell her, and then I was a little more blunt with, you know, 'You've lost friends last night,'
he said, recalling his conversation with his daughter I don't know how to process this,
Because I have common sense, okay?"
Asked this morning how he came to the conclusion that diversity played a role in the crash, Trump said There’s just no words to describe how awful it is, how terrifying, and how sad it is for these families,
We’re going to continue to receive some pretty damaging and sad and serious news."
That’s taking place. It started last night and continues throughout the day, and we’ve been monitoring our folks back home,
Incompetence might have played a role. We’ll let you know that. But we want the most competent people. We don’t care what race they are. We want the most competent people, especially in those positions,
I am seeing the same things I believe you are, on television. It is an accident that seems to be preventable from what we can tell today,
Driscoll told the senators This is a relatively easy corridor to fly, because you're flying down the center of the river, and it's very easily identifiable, especially at night,
We anticipate that the investigation will quickly be able to determine whether the aircraft was in the corridor and at the right altitude at the time of the incident,
For some reason, you had a helicopter that was at the same height and going at an angle that was unbelievably bad,
