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It’s not like we have an easy time finding people,
the source said
Given the nature of our safety work, limited budget, and the ongoing investigation of the highest fatality, mass casualty aviation accident since 9/11, ... we need each and every position represented at our agency in order for us to successfully carry out our mission critical work.”
said the email message viewed by CNN,We just repositioned and landed in the traffic circle of 395, which had been closed by that point,
Bowman said, referring to I-395 highway that loops around the US military's headquarters
It's 100 percent operational today. There's a team of maybe 100 personnel inside Raven Rock right now, ready to pick up the pieces of the US government,
Graff saidThe battalion helped transport some senior leaders out of Washington, DC to 'hide sites,'
Bradley Bowman, a former Army aviation officer who flew on Sept 11 as part of the 12th Aviation BattalionAn employer's decision to broaden the pool of potential applicants between rounds of hiring is not a personnel action cognizable under Title VII.
In a 2020 motion filed by the government, they said
The NTSB is an independent, bipartisan board — 58 years as the gold standard. Our job is to find the facts, but more importantly, our job is to make sure this tragedy doesn't happen again, regardless of what anyone may be saying,
Inman said, adding
Some of their mission is to support the Department of Defense if something really bad happens in this area, and we need to move our senior leaders,
Jonathan Koziol, the chief of staff of the Army's Aviation Directorate, told Reuters
The Black Hawk helicopter had a transponder, so it was appearing on radar. It did not have technology called ADS-B, which is technology that pings the location of an aircraft, and it does so using GPS rather than radar,
he said
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,
he addedFlight 5342 was initially scheduled to land on Runway 1 at Reagan but was redirected to Runway 33, ... Meanwhile, the helicopter was traveling along Route 1 before being shifted to Route 4.
he wrote on XThis is such a terrible tragedy and so counter intuitive to the environment that we typically provide. This is an area of recreation,
Lorenzen said
I am at a point where all I want to do is lay down and cry, you know, just crying my way through it.”
When asked how she is doing, Montgomery repliedYou can make millions of dollars as an attorney, doing different things, but she chose civil rights because she had a passion and a heart for people,
Montgomery saidI just thought to myself, this little girl’s gonna be somebody one day,
Seeing her energy and ability to express herself eloquently upon first meeting Duggins, Montgomery said of herI mean from the inside out, beautiful spirit, beautiful soul, beautiful person,
Montgomery saidOn DEI and the claim that you’ve made, are you saying this crash was somehow caused and the result of diversity hiring? And what evidence have you seen to support these claims?” ... It just could have been.”
A reporter asked ... Trump replied
How you can come to the conclusion right now that diversity had something to do with this crash?” ... Because I have common sense, OK? And, unfortunately, a lot of people don’t.”
Asked ... Trump snippedI think safety is in the public interest, and that’s our primary focus,
Whitaker testified to the House transportation committeeHe’s just got a good line of bullshit, ... and he’s run it right into the ground with his diversity. So I had to say that it’s terrible.”
said Trump