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Black boxes recovered from plane in deadly American Airlines crash near DC

Black boxes recovered from plane in deadly American Airlines crash near DC

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On Wednesday night, a midair collision occurred near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport over the Potomac River, resulting in the deaths of all 67 people on board both the American Airlines regional jet and the US Army Black Hawk helicopter. The crash was the first fatal commercial airliner incident in over 15 years. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chairman Jennifer Homendy stated that the agency will conduct a thorough investigation, leaving "no stone unturned."

Pete Buttigieg
Democratic Party
1. As families grieve, Trump should be leading, not lying. We put safety first, drove down close calls, grew Air Traffic Control, and had zero commercial airline crash fatalities out of millions of flights on our watch.
Barack Obama
Democratic Party
1. Michelle and I send our prayers and condolences to everyone who is mourning today, and we're grateful to the first responders who are doing everything they can to help under extremely difficult circumstances.
Jennifer Homendy
National Transportation Safety Board
1. We are going to conduct a thorough investigation of this entire tragedy, looking at the facts.
Donald Trump
Republican Party
1. You had a pilot problem from the standpoint of the helicopter.
2. You could have done a million different manoeuvres. For some reason, it just kept going.
3. These are not people who should be doing this particular job.
4. The Blackhawk helicopter was flying too high, by a lot. It was far above the 200 foot limit. That's not really too complicated to understand, is it???
Pete Hegseth
US Department of Defense
1. You need to train as you fight, you need to rehearse in ways that would reflect a real world scenario.
Sean Duffy
US Department of Transportation
1. I am in the process of developing an initial plan to fix the @FAANews. I hope to put it out very shortly.
2. This is not what I expected my first day on the job to be, but I do believe that God puts us exactly where we're supposed to be.
3. I can't take away their pain, but I can do a very small part to help ease it by keeping my promise to get to the bottom of what happened and be 100 per cent transparent about the results of the investigation. They have my word.
Larry Culp
General Electric
1. This is a tragedy not only for our industry but also for the GE Aerospace team as one of our cherished colleagues was onboard the flight.
Al Sharpton
National Action Network
1. How can he make these brash statements when an investigation is barely under way?
2. It doesn't matter if these were DEI hires or Ivy League hires. What matters is the families who are grieving, who do not want to see this moment politicized by a president bent on peeling back DEI policies.

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