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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,
They do need to be able to understand the environment, the air traffic, the routes, to ensure the safe travel of our senior leaders throughout our government,
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,
Today’s decision will immediately help secure the airspace near Reagan Airport, ensuring the safety of airplane and helicopter traffic,
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,
Flight 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.
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 U.S. 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 U.S. government,
This is such a terrible tragedy and so counter intuitive to the environment that we typically provide. This is an area of recreation,
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 replied You 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,
I 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 her I mean from the inside out, beautiful spirit, beautiful soul, beautiful person,
They had to circle back around because there was a helicopter in the flight path,
passenger Richard Hart told the newspaper of his experience on the flight I understand some people have associated me with the crash in D.C., and that is false,
Jo Ellis, a Black Hawk pilot with the Virginia Army National Guard, said in the Facebook video Chris’ kindness and compassion extended to everyone, whether you were a family member, friend, or one of the many strangers he connected with during his outdoor adventures,
his family said in a statement The treatment ran its course. She was ready to go home, and we were contracted to bring her back home to Mexico,
We saw no exterior damage that would indicate it was compromised at this time, so we have a high level of confidence we’ll have a full extraction,
The military is withholding the name of the female helicopter pilot. This is totally unacceptable. The helicopter was involved in, and may have actually caused, one of the worst airline disasters in American history. We have a right to know the names."
Conservative commentator Matt Walsh on X on Friday
