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After American Airlines’ American Eagle Flight 5342 had a mid-air collision with a chopper and subsequently crashed into the Potomac River, the D.C. occurrence main shared a statement.
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The American Airlines formation crash has presumably ended successful horrific tragedy.
After American Eagle Flight 5342—a level carrying 60 passengers and 4 unit members from Wichita, Kansas—had a mid-air collision with a US Army chopper Jan. 29, and subsequently crashed into Washington D.C.’s Potomac River, the city’s occurrence main John Donnelly said everyone aboard is “feared dead.”
Donnelly stated that the clang has switched from a rescue to a betterment protocol, per NBC News, noting that 27 bodies person been recovered from the country of the level crash, arsenic good arsenic 1 from the helicopter’s crash.
“I’m assured that we volition bash that,” Donnelly said during a property league of locating the remainder of the deceased, noting that the adjacent signifier of the cognition volition beryllium helmed by the National Transportation Safety Board, “and that volition instrumentality america a small spot of time, though. It whitethorn impact immoderate much equipment.”
Due to the crash—which near the American Airlines pitchy divided into respective pieces—Reagan National Airport is presently closed arsenic of publishing clip and volition reopen astatine 11 a.m. section time, arsenic betterment efforts proceed nearby.
“We’ve worked with each of the national agencies, FAA, and it’s been determined we tin unfastened that airdrome safely,” Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority CEO Jack Potter said of the airdrome successful a statement, per CNN. “The betterment effort that’s connected our spot is connected the waterfront.”
In a Jan. 30 property conference, American Airlines CEO Robert Isom shared that it’s inactive unclear wherefore the U.S. Army Black Hawk chopper was successful the way of its rider jet, with Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy later saying that some aircrafts had been pursuing a “standard formation pattern.”
In a Jan. 29 Truth Social post, President Donald Trump likewise expressed that the collision “should person been prevented,” adding, “NOT GOOD.”
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According to a connection issued by U.S. Figure Skating to NBC News, immoderate passengers aboard the craft included respective American fig skaters, arsenic good arsenic their families and coaches.
“These athletes, coaches, and household members were returning location from the National Development Camp held successful conjunction with the U.S. Figure Skating Championships,” the connection read. “We are devastated by this unspeakable calamity and clasp the victims’ families intimately successful our hearts.”
Hamaad Raza besides told CBS affiliate WUSA that his woman was aboard the rider plane, explaining that helium had received a substance from her conscionable earlier the collision, “She texted maine that they were landing successful 20 minutes.”
When his effect went unanswered, Raza began to interest thing had gone wrong. He added, “I’m conscionable praying to God.”
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