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We extend our condolences to the people of the U.S. and to the families of those who lost their lives in this tragic accident,
the Turkish Foreign Ministry said You had a pilot problem from the standpoint of the helicopter."
Trump appeared to place blame on the crew of the military helicopter, saying We think we have some pretty good ideas, but we'll find out how this disaster occurred, and we'll ensure that nothing like this ever happens again. The FAA and the NTSB and the US military will be carrying out a systematic and comprehensive investigation,
It was very clear night, it was cold, but clear and clear as you could be the American Airlines plane had lights blazing, they had all their landing lights on,
If you live in the DC area, you will see helicopters up and down the river
We call these missions that are flown in the DC area as our pilots are getting hours and experience training missions,
At this time, we don’t know why the military aircraft came into the path of the PSA aircraft,
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,
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 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 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. This is a bad situation that looks like it should have been prevented. NOT GOOD!!!,
The Washington national airport, where this event occurred, is one of the busiest in the country and it’s very, very well managed by air control,
Curtis, a former airline safety engineer for Boeing, said PAT25 [army helicopter], do you have a CRJ [American Airlines plane] in sight? PAT25, pass behind the CRJ,
an air traffic controller said at 8:47pm (ET on Wednesday, 01:47 GMT on Thursday). There were other of our fellow citizens on board. It’s bad news today from Washington. We are sorry and send our condolences to families and friends,
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters At these frigid water temperatures, the human body’s core temperature quickly drops. Exhaustion or unconsciousness can occur in as little as 15 to 30 minutes,
It’s surprising to me that something that is routine for the military somehow ended in a tragedy. I suspect there are several things that had to go wrong for this to happen,
Crash, crash, crash, this is an alert three.”
At the time of the crash, air traffic controllers were heard saying It’s really hard when you lose probably over 60 Kansans simultaneously,
he told a news conference at Reagan airport 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
