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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
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 U.S. government,
Graff said
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 U.S. military's headquartersIt would just be a bright mass of light, and it would be very distracting, and it would be very dangerous to fly in that with the night-vision goggles in that area,
Loranger said
There’s a lot of experts out there, but until we get the data from the black boxes, that’s the only truth, and we won’t know that for a little bit,
said Jonathan Koziol, a senior Army aviation adviser who’s helping with the investigationThey have to be familiar with all the routes around the capital,
Koziol saidThere are appropriate times to take risk, and there are inappropriate times to take risk,
Driscoll saidFlying aircraft, it’s not like riding a bicycle,
said Loranger, who has represented family members of service members killed in military aircraft crashesThat mission requires helicopters to fly that route,
he saidBased on the data we’re able to see, I think that’s a fair assessment,
said Ian Petchenik, spokesperson for FlightRadar24, a flight tracking company
Obviously, ultimately the aircraft has to pass through this 200-foot altitude in order to land,
former commercial pilot Jeff Huddleston saidADS-B is worlds beyond the standard Mode S data. Mode S data allows you to have just a few bits of information,
Petchenik told CNNI flew out of (Chicago) Midway Airport for over a dozen years where I did routinely fly underneath commercial airliners landing there at Midway Airport,
said DuckworthWe do see other lights in the area, particularly one bright light from another aircraft, when the air traffic control tower asked the helicopter, ‘Do you have the plane in sight?’
Schiavo told CNN’s Kasie Hunt on FridayThis is an extremely complex job that we do day in and day out with weather changes, with flow changes, and with airspace changes each and every day, ... so, it’s not uncommon for positions to be combined or not combined at all.”
National Air Traffic Controllers Association president Nick Daniels told CNN’s Erin BurnettPAT 2-5 do you have the CRJ in sight?”
An air traffic controller addressed the helicopterThe Blackhawk helicopter was flying too high, by a lot. It was far above the 200 foot limit,
Trump said in a Truth Social post Friday
Someone was at the wrong altitude,
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told Fox News on Friday morningI asked them to provide me with some more information – which they will – including the transcripts of the air traffic control instructions back to the pilots,
she told CNNThat’s a very tight, no-margin-for-error airspace arrangement and demands that everybody in that spot be completely on their toes and fly to complete perfection,
he said