This is how it was experienced in the control tower of Washington’s Reagan Airport, the collision between the passenger plane (PSA American Airlines Bombardier CRJ700 regional flight , which crashed into the Potomac River, with a US Army Black Hawk helicopter (Sikorsky H-60).
“PAT 2-5 (Black Hawk) has the aircraft in sight, request visual separation.”
“Ooh.”
“I don’t know if you noticed what happened, but there was a collision…”.
Fox News reported, based on information from a congressman, that at least 60 people died in the Washington plane crash.
Fox News: A member of Congress, in an unofficial statement, confirmed the death of at least 60 people in the plane crash.
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Trump, outraged by the accident: “Why didn’t the control tower tell the helicopter what to do instead of asking if they saw the plane?”
President Donald Trump declared that the mid-air collision between a US Army helicopter and an American Airlines passenger plane was a “bad situation that seems like it should have been avoided… Not good!”
“The plane was on a perfect, routine approach path to the airport. The helicopter was heading straight for the plane for a long period of time. It’s a clear night, the plane’s lights were on, why didn’t the helicopter go up or down, or turn. Why didn’t the control tower tell the helicopter what to do instead of asking if they saw the plane?” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.