U.S. senior officials said that a military helicopter that collided with passenger JET over the Potmax River on Wednesday has fallen into a training mission to evacuate government members during catastrophe or attack.
According to the U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegousth, the helicopter has run a “government continuity” drill designed to “rehearse in a way to reflect the real world scenario”. 。 HegSeth refused to go further, saying, “I don’t want to enter anything classified.”
The 12th Air Battalion, the UH-60 Black Hawk Hawelicopter unit, has been assigned a mission to evacuate the top US officials in the United States from Washington DC and secure a place in the case of an emergency.
These locations include Raven Rock Mountain, a Pennsylvanian facility built in the 1950s to use as a command center in the event of a nuclear war.
HegSeth’s comment was to the reporters on Thursday, “Some of their missions are really bad in this area, some of their missions we need to move. We talked to our senior leader.
“They need to understand the environment, air traffic, and routes to ensure a safe trip to senior leaders throughout the government,” said Kodiol.
The spare FAA report on the aerial collision is on the night of Wednesday when the US Airlines flight collides with the Army Black Hawk Helicopter, with the responsibility of the air traffic control of the airplane national airport and the air traffic control in the airplane. I found that it was combined early.
All 67 people on the related aircraft died, marking the most fatal American aviation accident in 2016.
The New York Times reports that the responsibility for processing helicopters and airplanes is separated in a busy airspace from 10:00 am to 9:30 pm. After 9:30 pm, if the traffic is slow, you can integrate your duties. The collision occurred before 9 pm.
AP communication reported that the FAA Preliminary Safety Report discovered that the personnel arrangement at the airport was “unusual between time and traffic.” The personnel arrangement goal set by the FAA and controller union is seeking 30 Air Commander at the airport, but as of September 2023, 19 was 19.
President Trump signed a President’s memorandum on air safety on Thursday and said it would cancel the “damage” by the Biden administration. Trump states that “incompetent” may have played a role in crashing.
With less than 30 seconds in which helicopter and airplane collide, an air traffic controller asked if the airplane was visible to the helicopter. The controller “PAT-25, CRJ?” The controller calls the Canadian Bombardia CRJ-700 and calls another radio call “Pat-25 passes behind CRJ” at the moment of PAT25. 。
However, it is speculated that the helicopter pilot may have been looking at an airplane behind the American Airlines flight in a landing queue. I have been asked about the altitude of the helicopter. It was cleared to fly in 200 feet, but it seemed to have risen to 400 feet and was promoted to a passenger aircraft route.
As of Friday afternoon, the rescue squad collected 41 bodies and 28 was actively identified at a press conference, saying at a press conference, DC Fire Fire Secretary -General John Donneler Senior. He said 18 families were told that their loved ones were dead.
Among the passengers on an airplane, there was a member of the Boston skate club that returned from the development camp following the US Figure Skate Championship in Wichita, Kansas.
The victims include a group of hunters returning from a traveling trip in Kansas, nine students and parents in Fairfax County, Virginia, and two local members of Steam Fitterers on the outskirts of Maryland. It also included the Chinese citizens.
The Army has identified two of the three soldiers of helicopters. Lilburn Staff SGT Ryan Austin Ohara, Great Mills, 39 -year -old Andrew Loyed Evers, the highest warrant officer in Great Mills, Maryland. The Army said that the third soldier’s name was not released in response to his family’s request.
