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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,
Today’s decision will immediately help secure the airspace near Reagan Airport, ensuring the safety of airplane and helicopter traffic,
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.
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,
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,
The treatment ran its course. She was ready to go home, and we were contracted to bring her back home to Mexico,
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 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 are devastated by this unspeakable tragedy and hold the victims' families closely in our hearts,
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,
Six days was the longest we had ever been apart, and it was, it was hard,
We are a tight-knit community, and we are all connected to each other,
We will probably have more than one black box, so to speak. It's our understanding that the Sikorsky helicopter is equipped with some form of recording device, and those will be read either by the DOD or by us. We have a good starting relationship with them, and we've already made agreements in order to be able to do that. So I feel comfortable in what we're going to be doing,
said NTSB board member J. Todd Inman Our dive teams are working in targeted areas and additional Coast Guard assets will arrive this afternoon. The salvage crews... are assessing the work that's going to be needed to recover the aircraft from the water,
Washington Fire Chief John Donnelly told a news conference at Reagan National Airport, outside the US capital If it doesn't, we will continue the search."
There's a lot of people that have speculation and want to be heard in that regard,
The Blackhawk helicopter was flying too high, by a lot. It was far above the 200 foot limit. That’s not really too complicated to understand, is it???"
Trump was at it again Friday, posting on his Truth Social platform A lot of details and speculation will come out in response to this tragedy, but we must remember to let the investigation run its course,
Captain Jason Ambrosi said in a statement They actually came out with a directive: 'too white.' And we want the people that are competent,
