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We are coming to terms with the grief associated with the loss of our beautiful and accomplished firstborn. Please respect our family’s privacy at this time.”
Her father, Maurice Duggins, said in a statement
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Both of these young Georgians shared a passion for flight and for serving others, and this terrible tragedy is that much more difficult knowing their lives were cut so unexpectedly short,
Kemp wrote on X
You want me to go swimming?”
Donald Trump responded sarcastically to questions about whether he would be visiting the site of the deadly crash over the Potomac River in Washington D.C., asking reporters at the White HouseI don't know about you, but when I saw the when I saw the news of the crash last night and just waking up this morning and watching the briefing, your heart just goes out, not only to the families who lost loved ones, but to everybody who was part of that,
she said
We are going to conduct a thorough investigation of this entire tragedy, looking at the facts,
Homendy said
These are not people who should be doing this particular job,
Trump said at a news conference, without specifying whom he was referring toThe position configuration was not normal for the time of day and volume of traffic,
the report said
They actually came out with a directive: 'too white.' And we want the people that are competent."
Accusing his Democratic predecessors Joe Biden and Barack Obama of having kept good employees out of the aviation agency in pursuit of DEI, he claimed
He's in charge. This happened on his watch,
Murphy saidThe recorders are at the NTSB labs for evaluation,
the agency said in a statement to AFPIt could have been."
Asked again by reporters whether he was blaming workplace diversity for the crash, Trump answeredHe's run it right into the ground with his diversity,
Trump saidAs families grieve, Trump should be leading, not lying,
he saidEverything was routine up to the point of the accident,
Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin told Reuters
Some of it was luck. Some of it is technology. And mostly it was the tremendous job that the pilots and air traffic controllers do,
former United Airlines pilot Captain Ross "Rusty" Aimer told VOA
President Trump now oversees the military and the FAA,
he addedAs a whole, the general aviation industry in the United States is outstanding,
he saidWe are now at the point where we are switching from a rescue operation to a recovery operation,
said John Donnelly, the fire chief in the nation’s capital
They collided with a military aircraft on an otherwise normal approach, and at this time, we don't know why the military aircraft came into the path of the PSA aircraft,
he said
These responders found extremely frigid conditions. They found heavy wind. They found ice on the water, and they operated all night in those conditions,
Donnelly said