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Ronald Reagan Washington Nationwide Airport. Photograph/ BBC
As reported by way of Xianhua, Friday (1/31/2025), the loss of group of workers on the air visitors keep watch over tower at Ronald Reagan Washington Nationwide Airport is ‘unusual’ all through the fatal night time collision between passenger airplane and armed forces helicopters that claimed 67 other folks , The New York Occasions reported, quoting the preliminary file.
The file mentioned the controller working the helicopter within the space across the airport on Wednesday night time additionally directed the touchdown and take off the airplane from the runway, the duty that used to be normally given to 2 other controllers.
At a press convention on the White Space that day, US President Donald Trump mentioned there have been a number of warnings ahead of the collision of passenger and helicopter airplane close to the airport on Wednesday night time, “However the caution got here very, very past due.”
Trump mentioned that he heard “an excessively horrifying recording,” regarding an air visitors controller who requested, “Do you notice that?” He added that “there’s just a little time left” when the phrases are spoken and notice that there’s additionally a “pilot downside” associated with the helicopter.
On the identical press convention, Trump showed that no person survived the violation, and the present task became to the restoration challenge.
John Donnelly, Head of the Fireplace Division of Fireplace and Emergency Clinical Services and products in Columbia District, mentioned that at a press convention on the airport on Thursday morning that 28 our bodies have been discovered, together with 27 from a airplane and one from a helicopter.
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