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The slow process begins of investigating the root cause. So, the timeline is the timeline. I expect a preliminary report in several weeks,
Certainly that’s what it looks like to me. I understand that commonly happens — the military aircraft shares its shared airspace with the civilian aircraft. But is that necessary? Are we just inviting a disaster to happen? And I think that’s a question that I want answered as well.”
Asked if he’s concerned about air congestion in the region, Marshall replied Clearly this was a confluence of errors. … It’s unacceptable, and I appreciate President Trump and his team saying there’s challenges here, there’s problems here, and we’re going to correct them,
With congestion, you run into risks of safety,
But yeah, I’ve been very, very concerned about this very complex airspace — commercial, military — and the way that the security demands of being the nation’s capital puts some significant restrictions on it. And I am really worried about that,
I’ve been praying that there wouldn’t be something like last night, ... but kind of dreading in my heart that there would be.”
That tells me the helicopter was on the TCAS of the passenger plane, and the pilot tried to avoid it, but it was too late,
Many of us pilots are still perplexed because, usually, when passenger jets are on short final approach to the runway, they have all their lights on, including landing lights. It's really hard not to see them. If you look at the video, it looks like the helicopter flew right into the back of the passenger jet,
The FAA must immediately suspend all helicopter flights in the airspace of Reagan National Airport until the investigation is complete and any NTSB recommendations are implemented. The risks are simply too high."
Robert Clifford, aviation attorney, speaking to Newsweek This is a difficult day for all of us at American Airlines. Our focus now is entirely on the needs of our passengers, crew members, partners, first responders, and, most importantly, their families and loved ones."
American Airlines CEO Robert Isom, in a video statement We're lucky, he's lucky, that it's not his flight,
she said, motioning toward her father And then I asked and that's when I learned that this plane crashed here at the airport and I started crying,
This is DC and Army bases are all over the state of VA , the helicopters have a refueling station right next to DCA,
I wonder if it was something like this that caused the collision tonight,
In all seriousness, why would they be doing this at night without being aware of what’s happening at Reagan?
Kylie Jane Kremer, the executive director for Women for America First also questioned The airplane was on a perfect and routine line of approach to the airport,
Trump wrote on Truth Social early Thursday morning Prior to the collision, the flight paths that were being flown, from the military and from American, that was not unusual for what happens in the D.C. airspace,
There was some sort of an elevation issue that we have immediately begun investigating,
People in the cockpit, the flight crew, see and avoid and rely on the controller,
Was the Black Hawk under any control or monitoring?"
