Airline Airrican Airlines accident: Kansas legislators promise to find answers
Kansas’s entire congress delegation promises to find answers for families who mourn the loved ones after a deadly Wichite flight collision in Washington DC, which officials said they had not left survivors.
The Black Hawk helicopter collided with a commercial American Airlines PSA, which was the moments of landing at the Ronald Reagan National Airport on Wednesday night, temporarily stopping all flights of the UI outside a small but critically located airport.
“Our prayers are with families and friends of those affected by a tragic plane crash that happened in the capital of our country. The South Central Kansas is a close community and it is likely that many of us directly or indirectly know people who were on Flight 5342 on January 29 , it is stated that a common written statement of the legislator.
Video shows a DC drop that includes a flight American Airlines, a Black Hawk helicopter
“This is a sad day for Kansan and our nation, and this community, imbued with aviation and production history, will feel the pain of this catastrophe for years to come. We are grateful for the first answers and the rescue crews that worked through the night.
“Our focus is now supporting the family and friends of those who have failed, including crew and military staff, and then getting answers for bereaved individuals who have lost their loved one and ensure that this is not happening again.”
He was signed by GOP Senators Kansas Roger Marshall and Jerry Moran, as well as representatives of the Republican House Ron Estes, Tracey Mann, Derek Schmidt and a lone Democrat of delegations, Sharica Davids.
Estes represents a large part of Wichite, where the flight was created.
Moran said at a press conference just after midnight on Thursday that he was familiar with the flight route because he was lobbied by American Airlines to start last year.
President Donald Trump The established journalists about the crisis earlier on Thursday, saying that there were no survivors of the collision.
Trump members New cabinetSean Duffy and Minister of Defense of Peta Hegsetth, both of them promised to find fast answers for families who are grieving loved ones after a collision.
Ambassador Don Beyer, D-VA, represented by the Arlington County, where the airport is located, said similarly to work on responsibilities.
“As a local representative, I want families to know that our office is available to serve you in any way that at this time of sadness and transition and loss,” Beyer said at a second press conference on Thursday morning.
“And then I would also mention that we were deeply grateful to the people who took the risk of their lives last night for a moment and all night on the river in ice and wind, serving us.”
Beyer added that through the National Transport Safety Committee (NTSB) in a collision, “we have to make sure that at the federal level and with the support of Virginia, Maryland and DC we do whatever we do can be sure that this is not repeated.”
American Airlines said 60 passengers and four crew members were on the aircraft, and the airline encouraged all loved ones who seek information to call for numbers on his website.
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American officers explore Why the Black Hawk helicopter took off the path of a descending aircraft, Duffy told reporters.
“I would say the helicopter was aware that there was a plane in the area,” he said.
Hegsetth said the helicopter was taken over by an experienced crew and that he had passed the “annual flight to training of expertise”.
Duffy told reporters that, although the collision was a very unusual and tragic event, the two planes’s mutual patterns were not atypical.