This Wednesday, January 29, in the evening, an American airliner collided with a military helicopter near Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington (United States). This Friday, Donald Trump says more about this crash that left 67 dead.
American President Donald Trump claimed Friday that the military helicopter that collided with an American Airlines plane on January 29 over Washington was flying “too high”, an allegation put forward while the investigation into this deadly disaster is only just beginning.
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The Black Hawk helicopter, carrying three military personnel, and the Bombardier CRJ-700 operated by PSA Airlines, a regional subsidiary of American Airlines, with 60 passengers and four crew members on board, crashed into the Potomac. There were no survivors.
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U.S. military helicopters regularly fly a flight path called Route 4 near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. For safety reasons, the aircraft must fly at a maximum altitude of 200 feet. “The Blackhawk helicopter was flying way too high. It was way over the 200-foot limit. It's not too hard to understand, right?”, Donald Trump wrote on his Truth Social social network. The Federal Transportation Administration is leading the investigation into the cause of the crash.
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The airliner's black boxes have been recovered and were being analyzed. An army official, speaking on condition of anonymity, urged the utmost caution and patience. “The president has been clear on this: Someone was at the wrong altitude. The investigation will help us figure it out. Was the Black Hawk too high, was it on its flight path? At this point, we don't know,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Fox News Channel