Father of the Airline Accident Victims: ‘Culture of Self -Facility’ has allowed a fatal accident to occur
Father American Airlines Kopilot who died in Mirada A collision near the National Airport Reagan In January, on Thursday, Fox Business told the “Culture of the Suchece” to make the disaster happen.
Tim Lilley spoke of his son, the first officer Samo Lilley, on the eve of hearing in a collision on January 29, in which a military helicopter participated. National Traffic Safety Committee Chairman Jennifer Homendy told the legislators that families and friends are 67 victims “Today here” and “I can only imagine what they are going through”.
“My son was an extraordinary young man whose career and his life was just starting, and we were not ready to lose him, and we would never be. And 66 other families passing through the same thing. This accident was so prevented,” Lilley told Fox Business.
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“And I hope that some of this will come out. You know, we really have to work on this culture of a saucece that allowed this accident to happen.”
During the hearing, Senator Jerry Moran, R-Kan., He said the NTSB preliminary report “provides alarming statistics in using the existing FAA data on risks in Air Force safety.
Tim Lilley, insertion, said that a collision at Washington’s middle airport, Washington, on January 29, was “so prevented”. (Fox Business/AP/Ben Curtis)
“This information includes-and NTSB provides these number-in-period periods of 13 years, has not passed a month without at least one ‘close call’ between a helicopter and a commercial jet that operates in DCA [Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport]. Between December 21 and December 24, there were 85 incidents where the lateral separation between a commercial jet and a helicopter was less than 1500 feet and a vertical separation of less than 200 feet, “he said.” And during that the same [13-year] Time frame, there were more than 15,000 “events in the immediate vicinity between the helicopter and the commercial aircraft.”
Lilley added that, Of disaster, Sean Duffy’s carriage secretary “was really a champion to change things and change them not the Government’s pace, but more as in the pace of business, which is something we just advocate. We love it.”
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He also said that “the worst day of my life was January 29”, and “The second worst day of my life was the day after.
“If you have ever had to sit on a NTSB submission, and you are full of orphan and widow and families who lost their sons, and the first guy who gets up and is submitted by a fire chief, and he tells you that it was a terrible scene, there were parts of the body that spread over the ice – she said no family should pass,” Lilley said.
“And what we are trying to do here, we will just make sure that no family has to go through the same scenario.”
In this photo shared by Tim Lilley, Sam Lilley, a co -pilot who died on the Fatal American Airlines 5342 flight, smiling from the pilot cab of the plane. (Tim Lilley)
On Thursday, Homendy opened her testimony, saying, “It is important that we remember today that those who died in DCA -ii other accidents we are exploring are not numbers. These are mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, wives, husbands, cousins, best friends who will not be there with their loved ones, celebration, Ramadan, father, all Ramadan.
“Their families and friends, whether in person or online, are here today. I can only imagine what they are going through and I want to spend the moment to express my deepest sympathy to each of them again,” she said. “Please know that we keep you in our hearts as we work diligently to determine how this tragedy happened. So, no one, no one experiences a deeply significant loss that you must feel today.”
Dailey Crafton, brother of the victim Casey Crafton, told Fox Business: “I think for ourselves, and I think most families are looking for responsibility for what happened from any agency to have a responsibility.
“We are devastated. It’s a big hole in our lives, and it comes in waves,” he added. “Some days are fine. The other day you can, like, barely even want to get out of bed, and you know you can’t stop thinking about it and feel only anxious and stressed and everything. So it’s a cervix.”
Rescue crews withdrawn by part of the Black Hawk helicopter army included in the MID collision. 6. February. (AP/Jose Luis Magana)
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Maxim Naumov, a slider figure whose parents, former Olympians Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, died in a collision in Mirada, said they said NBC -O’S “Today” On Thursday, the last message he heard from his mother was “to let me know that they were shifting flights and that if I could pick them up.”
