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© 2025 AFPGrim search for plane crash bodies continues as Trump doubles down
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JJE
Still no mention of the third person.
Peter Neil
the name is being withheld, reportedly at the request of her family.
the dei program at the faa was started by trump during trump1 fiasco, in case anyone forget.
iknowall
Does anyone doubt that the helicopter was flying too high?
patkim
Reports have said that this was an accident waiting to happen. There have been numerous near-misses in the past due to the strict flight path that jets have to take coming in to land at the runway, along with the fact that the military routinely conducts flight trainings so close to the airport. They should look into how to adjust the flight path so as not to put airplanes in the path of any danger and how to not allow the military to conduct trainings so close to the airport. Absolutely nothing to do with DEI. It's been around ever since Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act back in 1964 and its subsequent executive order in 1965. Since then, there has been no spike in plane accidents as a result.
wallace
Looking at a new video it appears the plane crashed into the helicopter.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/31/us/video/american-airline-plane-crash-washington-exclusive-video-ldn-digvid
Blacklabel
“Air traffic controller left shift early, source confirms”
nothing to do with “overtime” when someone leaves their shift …early.
John-San
Blacklabel: your source is wrong. Trump admin and plutocrat mate Musk stop all overtime with his new cost cutting directives days before which caused the shift to be a man short. The person who was ill was to covered the fight of helicopters. So someone had to cover the their duties and double up while doing their own normal duties. Trump needs to step up and be a man instead be a coward.
quercetum
Trump has to double down. It’s been a rough start in the first month for Trump. AI bubble popped. CA wildfires. Two aviation crashes.
WatanabeBuddha
Most likely why was the helicopter flying 100m above the chartered flight route, and he did the pilots not notice the plane?
I still believe that a deliberate action cannot be ruled out, but bad ATC and a bad helicopter visual awareness are probably factors in the collision. There were at least three in the helicopter which means at least one should have been looking for the plane.