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The president of the United States, Donald Trump, questioned the control tower after an US Army helicopter. And a passenger plane crashed near Washington
President Donald Trump calls the helicopter jet clash ‘It is not good!’ About social truth. (Source: Reuters)
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, said on Wednesday the accident between a helicopter of the US Army. And a passenger plane near Washington “should have been avoided.”
“Why didn’t the control tower tell the helicopter what to do instead of asking if they saw the plane? This is a bad situation that seems to have been avoided, “Trump wrote in his social platform of truth, and added:” It’s not good! “
A passenger plane that transported 64 people crashed into the Potomac River in Washington on Wednesday after colliding in the air with a military helicopter, with the US media informing multiple bodies extracted from dark water and almost freezing.
The plane was approaching the Reagan National Airport around 9:00 pm (0200 GMT) after flying from Wichita, Kansas, when the collision occurred.
The subsidiary of American Airlines, PSA Airlines, which operated the Bombardier regional plane, said that “there were 60 passengers and four crew members aboard the plane.”
The American media, citing local sources, reported that multiple bodies had been recovered, with CBS News saying at least 18, and NBC more than a dozen.
The Washington Post, citing a statement of American artistic skating, said several athletes, coaches and officials were aboard the flight.
An US Army official. Uu said that the helicopter involved was a black hawk that led to three soldiers, with its currently unknown status. They had been in a “training flight,” said a separate military spokesman in a statement.
A massive search and rescue operation was in Progreso, with visible divers in the glow of the powerful lights while immersing themselves in the snow -lined potomac to travel the remains of both planes.
“We are going to be there as long as necessary, and obviously we are trying to reach people as soon as possible, but we are going to recover our fellow citizens,” said Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser, journalists.
Washington firefighters, John Donnelly, said at a press conference that emergency teams, with a total of 300 people, worked in “extremely rough” conditions and gave little indications that they expected to find someone alive.
“We will reevaluate where we are with the rescue operation in the morning, when we have a better idea of it,” said Donnelly. “But we are still working, and we will continue that throughout the night” witness Ari Schulman was driving home when he saw what he described as “a stream of sparks” on top.
“Initially I saw the plane and looked good, normal. He was about to address the earth, “he told CNN.
“Three seconds later, and at that time I was covered to the right … I could see the bottom, it was illuminated of a very bright yellow, and there was a stream of sparks below,” Schulman added. “It looked like a Roman candle.”
Airspace full of people
The questions were expected to focus on how a passenger plane with modern collision avoidance technology and nearby traffic controlle could collide with a military plane over the capital of the country.
The airspace around Washington is often full, with low airplanes on the city to land at Reagan airport and helicopters, military, civilians and high -level transporters or officials, buzzing both day and night.
The same airport was the stage of a fatal accident in January 1982 when Air Florida Flight 90, a Boeing 737, took off, but quickly collapsed, hitting the 14th street bridge and crashing through the ice towards the Potomac River. Seventy -eight people died.
The researchers concluded that the pilot had not activated enough overflow procedures.
The last fatal plane accident of the United States was in 2009, when Continental flight from New Jersey to Buffalo, New York, crashed and killed the 49 people on board.
(This story has not been edited by News18 staff and is published from a FEED – AFP union news agency)
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