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It's a tragedy, a horrible loss of life for those 64 souls on that civilian airliner. And of course, the three soldiers in that Black Hawk. They're in our prayers, their families and their communities as people are notified,
Safety is our expectation. Everyone who flies in American skies expects that we fly safely, that when you depart an airport, you get to your destination. That didn’t happen last night,
We do know on our side who was involved. It was a fairly experienced crew, and that was doing a required annual night evaluation,
Hegseth said in a video statement obtained exclusively by Fox News We have recovered 27 people from the plane and one from the helicopter,
Why didn’t the control tower tell the helicopter what to do instead of asking if they saw the plane
People in the cockpit, the flight crew, see and avoid and rely on the controller,
Was the Black Hawk under any control or monitoring?"
That system essentially shuts down at 1,000 feet,
Goelz said on CNN Thursday morning We have early indicators of what happened here, and I will tell you with complete confidence, we have the safest airspace in the world,
Transport Secretary Sean Duffy told reporters It was probably out in the middle of the river. I just saw a fireball, and then it was just gone,
an air traffic controller says We are devastated by this unspeakable tragedy and hold the victims’ families closely in our hearts,
U.S. Figure Skating said in a statement Everybody hold your positions on the field right now,
All I'm going to say is I'm very curious who was on the plane that is now in the Potomac River, because military helicopters don't just run into passenger planes.
A week into the term, this becomes very suspicious, ... A lot of things that shouldn't happen, happen now
one X user said, to which another replied I find it hard to believe an army helicopter didn't have enough intel to avoid this,
We need to know who was on these planes because it looks like that Blackhawk flew directly into it,
I'm just praying that somebody is pulling her out of the river right now as we speak."
The husband, Hamaad Raza, says She text me that they were landing in 20 minutes."
The fact that a@wusa9 reporter not only went up to the husband of a passenger on the plane that crashed at DCA tonight but then proceeded to ask the husband to show the texts he sent trying to contact his wife is DISGUSTING."
Can you show us the text message?"
In a moment that has drawn much criticism online, the reporter then says
