EXCLUSIVE: Top Republican Pododbor of the Air Force Committee of Air Force calls for congress hearing in a deadly collision between American Airlines plane and military helicopter in Washington, DC
“We say we are a gold standard, we just have to keep maintaining that level,” he told Fox News Digital in an interview, troy Nehls envoy, R-Texas, presided over by a sub-newsletter, for Fox News Digital.
“I just want to sit with all of them and when [National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)] Whether his report is – be sure that he is very accurate, factual, and to come up with some recommendations – and then we will have to see if we need to change the direction or change the course based on these recommendations. But we don’t know yet. “
Nehls praised the chairman of the Graves’ transportation committee, noticing his pilot background, and said he would ask a Republican from Missouri to convene meetings with the affected parties and those who were investigating the incident. Nehls suggested potential closed -door meetings to provide more honest discussions, but said that a public hearing would be fine.
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The troy Nehls envoy, the airfare’s chair, oversees the situation after the American Airlines plane collided with a military helicopter over the Potomac River. (Getty Images)
“We have to find out the reason for the collision and then come up with, you know, recommendations to make sure that it no longer happen again,” he said. “We don’t have to sit on this. I don’t want to hear,” It will be 18 months. “I don’t want to hear that.”
And it seems that federal investigators are on the same page.
NTSB officials said they hoped for a preliminary report for about 30 days.
“I think that would be fair,” Nehls said. “But this should not stop the Congress to study this and do what we can do to help. I think the President Trump … expects it, and he has the right to expect us from us to make sure our airline industry holds standard for the standard world. “
While hoping for fast results, Nehls explicitly warned of any wounds of speculation about who or what was guilty of the tragedy.
Efforts on recovery in progress after American Airlines Jet, a military helicopter collided by mid.
FBI agents stand near the debris after the US Eagle Flight 5342 collided with Black Hawk helicopter, while on January 30, 2025. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)
“Everyone wants to speculate on how it happened, why did it happen. Whose guilty is it? Is that a helicopter? Was that a plane?” Said Nehls.
“I think it’s irresponsible. I think you just have to give time to investigate NTSB, you know, to conduct a very thorough investigation.”
However, finger directing and guessing are already widespread. Some have blamed the Congress for Approaching too many new airlines at the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, which is closer to the US capitol than the much larger international Washington-Dulles Airport.
The second, primarily on the right, have claimed that the initiatives for diversity Democratic administrations helped lead to tragedy.
“I think it’s too early for all that,” Nehls said when asked about both of them.
The evidence so far has not supported any conclusion or cause of collision.
The crews are retrieved by the wreckage of the American Airlines Flight 5342 in the Potomac River. (Leigh Green for Fox News Digital)
Nehls spoke with Fox News Digital the day after the Black Hawk helicopter, who carried three services members, crashed into a passenger plane that started from Wichit, Kansas, which was moments away from landing at the National Airport of Reagan.
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Both aircraft were seen to fall into the Potomac River between Washington and neighboring Arlington, Virginia, where the airport is located.
US officials said there were No survivors, And the efforts to recover are still ongoing.
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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.
