WASHINGTON: Sixty seven individuals have been feared lifeless after an American Airways passenger jet collided with a US Military Black Hawk helicopter on Wednesday night time and crashed into the frigid Potomac River close to Reagan Washington Nationwide Airport.Sixty passengers and 4 crew members have been aboard the jet flying from Wichita in Kansas, whereas the chopper was carrying three troopers on an annual proficiency coaching flight.The crash web site was reported to be barely miles from White Home and Pentagon.”We now have been advised there aren’t any survivors,” Wichita mayor Lily Wu mentioned. Twenty eight our bodies had been recovered from the river until experiences final got here in.
It isn’t identified what led to the crash – the deadliest US air catastrophe since Nov 12, 2001 – contemplating radio communications between ATC and the Black Hawk confirmed its crew knew the airplane was within the neighborhood. “Every little thing was commonplace within the lead-up to the crash,” US transportation secretary Sean Duffy mentioned. “Do I believe this was preventable? Completely.” ‘Military copter was being operated on coaching flight by skilled crew’ The US military helicopter that collided with a passenger jet was being operated on a coaching flight by a “pretty skilled crew” with night-vision goggles, US defence secretary Pete Hegseth mentioned on Thursday, because the Pentagon ordered a 48-hour pause in flying for the Virginia-based unit concerned. As well as, Daniel Driscoll, President Trump’s nominee for military secretary, advised a Senate listening to that the crash seems to have been preventable, and he raised questions on whether or not coaching ought to happen close to a busy airport. Hegseth saidthat there seems to have been an elevation challenge with the Black Hawk, and mentioned military investigators have been on the bottom wanting into the matter. REUTERS
