U.S. Airlines crashed after military helicopters near Washington Special Economic Zone crashed | American News
After an air airline with 60 passengers and the U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter, 60 passengers, four crew members crashed, at the same time landed at Ronald, Ronald, near Washington, DC. Reagan National Airport prompted Potomac River to carry out large -scale search and rescue operations.
The Washington Post says multiple corpses have been pulled out of the water. NBC reported that four people were withdrawn from Potoma.
All take -off and landing from the airport near the capital have been stopped because the helicopter aircraft from law enforcement agencies in the region flew across the scene to find survivors. US officials said the three soldiers were on the helicopter.
President Donald Trump said that he has “briefly introduced this terrible accident” and refers to passengers, adding: “May God bless their soul.”
The Federal Aviation Administration stated that the air -collision accident occurred around 9 pm. At that time, a regional jet aircraft from Wichita, Kansas, collided with a military helicopter with a military helicopter when it was running to the airport runway. It occurred in the most controllable and monitored airspace in the world, three miles south of the White House and the Congress Building.
Investigators will try to put together the plane at the last moment of the collision, including contact with air traffic controllers and the height of passenger jets.
According to data from radio reactors, the US Airlines flight 5342 enters the Reagan National Airlines at a height of about 400 feet, with a speed of about 400 feet and a speed of about 140 miles per hour. The Bombardier CRJ-701 dual-engine jet aircraft made in Canada was produced in 2004 and can be configured as up to 70 passengers.
A few minutes before landing, the air traffic controller asked whether the commercial aircraft could land on the No. 33 runway of the Reagan National State, and the pilot said they could. The controller then cleaned the aircraft to fall on the 33rd runway. The flight tracking site shows how the aircraft adjusts its new runway.
Less than 30 seconds before the collision, the air traffic controller asked whether the helicopter had arrived at the plane. After a while, the controller called the helicopter again: “Pat 25 passed the ball behind CRJ.” After a few seconds after that, the two planes collided.
The radio responseter of the aircraft stopped the transmission of about 2,400 feet from the runway, about the middle of the river.
The tower immediately began to transfer other planes from Reagan.
Videos from the nearby Kennedy Center's observation camera show that the two sets of lights seem to be consistent with the fireball.
The collision accident is the main test for the Trump administration's two latest agencies leaders. Pete Hegset was sworn in a few days ago as the Minister of Defense and released on social media. His department is “actively monitoring” the situation involving the Army helicopter. The Minister of Transport, Sean Duffy, sworn in earlier this week. He said in social media posts that he “surveillance closely at the FAA headquarters.”
Reagan National is located in the Potomac River in the southwest of the city. This is a popular choice because it is much closer to the deeper Dules International Airport than Virginia.
The incident caused Florida Airlines to fall into Potoma on January 13, 1982, causing 78 people to be killed. This collapse attributed to bad weather.
The last fatal collapse of American commercial airlines occurred near Buffalo, New York in 2009. Everyone on the Bombardier DHC-8 propeller plane was killed, including 45 passengers, two pilots and two flight attendants. Another person on the ground also died, causing the total death toll to 50. A survey confirmed that the captain accidentally caused the plane to stagnate when it was close to the Bafafaro airport.
The Associated Press and Reuters contributed the report