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Yeah, we were on short final and we saw flares from the opposite side of the Potomac."
Apparently both aircraft involved are in the river, a search and rescue will be ongoing."
An approach controller added We’re cooperating fully with the National Transportation Safety Board and its investigation and will continue to provide all the information we can,
They normally get calls for aircraft in distress. This time it rang, and all they heard was crash, crash, crash,
said David Hoagland, head of the Fire and EMS union A group within the FAA determined that the workforce was too white, then they had concerted efforts to get the administration to change that and to change it immediately,
There’s no words to describe how sad it is to see something like,
said Rachel Hillock, who traveled to Washington today on a Southwest flight from Chicago with her two daughters We lost family members today,
Misha Mitrofanov, who teamed with Alisa Efimova to win the U.S. pairs championship, told reporters in Norwood, Massachusetts My heart goes out to Sasha’s wife Natalia, the University of Delaware Figure Skating Club, and every other Delawarean touched by the three of them,
When all is said and done, this one was probably an avoidable accident,
She was one of the best skaters I've ever seen, honestly. She was one of the best pair girls to skate."
Her ex-husband, Ross Lansel, paid tribute to her talent I'm still waiting to wake up from this nightmare, but I fear this is the truth."
It was truly an honor to have future Olympians and those who are at the highest competition level of figure skating, right here in our capital,
You are at the border of three or four aviation systems here - and it's at those borders where most accidents tend to happen,
The helicopter pilot indicated he had the airplane in sight and was going to visually separate from it – and then the accident happened shortly thereafter - so there's going to be a lot of questions about exactly what did the helicopter pilot see?"
What's really unique about Reagan is right there on the river. There's also a helicopter route that crosses right through that final approach and that's at or below 200 feet,
If you look at DC, you see a lot of helicopters going down into this area so there's a very well-defined system in that regard,
You're putting potentially two different aircraft in a really small space with hardly any separation,
And suddenly, this is where the flight ended.”
He ended the segment by saying This is a bit sick…” ... Ghoul!”
Fuming social media users took to X – formerly Twitter – to complain about the segment, with one writing So we are in a helicopter simulator… where are we?”
