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(T)he low level helicopter routes have been in operation for decades – that area is one of the busiest aviation operation centers in the country, if not the world,
said Bowman, who is also a senior director of the Center on Military and Political Power at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies Someone was at the wrong altitude,
Hegseth told Fox News on Friday morning Everyone has to be on their game and follow instruction exactly,
Given the nature of our safety work, limited budget, and the ongoing investigation of the highest fatality, mass casualty aviation accident since 9/11, ... we need each and every position represented at our agency in order for us to successfully carry out our mission critical work.”
said the email message viewed by CNN, It’s not like we have an easy time finding people,
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 US 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 US government,
The battalion helped transport some senior leaders out of Washington, DC to 'hide sites,'
Bradley Bowman, a former Army aviation officer who flew on Sept 11 as part of the 12th Aviation Battalion 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,
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 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.
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,
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 The treatment ran its course. She was ready to go home, and we were contracted to bring her back home to Mexico,
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 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,
This will help in our post-accident analysis of how the machine actually reacted to the incident,
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
