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@AluraJenson Here the video of the accident, you could see in the first minute that the helicopter never stop and pass right in front of the plane. RIP to all the victims 😢 and GOD ✝️ bless all the rescuers 🫡 https://t.co/mv75MhGhrx
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A passenger plane collided with a military helicopter near the airport, prompting a large-scale rescue operation in the Potomac River. Emergency services, including DC Fire and EMS, are working in challenging conditions to execute the rescue. American Airlines officials are on-site, providing support to families and coordinating with the National Transportation Safety Board for an investigation. The response includes over 300 personnel from various agencies, utilizing boats and helicopters for the operation. Authorities emphasize the complexity of the situation and the ongoing nature of the rescue efforts, while expressing condolences to those affected. Regular updates will be provided as more information becomes available.
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Speaker 0: Did you do that?
Speaker 1: 472 American 3130 go around some left hand 3505903000. K. Left hand, 350, 3000, American 3 130. Blue seat, 5347. Go around, climb, maintain, 3,000, flight 3000, I'm gonna go around 3,000.
Blue streak, 5347. Blackjack 3, can you return the base? Blackjack 3, proceed directly to believe I need you to land. I need you to land immediately. Can you go today can you go to Dallas for a few minutes?
Also, 7, proceed to westbound. Contact the Dallas style 120-1. Marshall 13, can you go to Baltimore? I don't know if you caught earlier what happened, but, there was a collision on the first in the 33. We're gonna be shutting down operations for the, indefinite future.
If you wanna go back to the gate, highly suggest you guys coordinate with companies. Let me know what you wanna do.
Speaker 0: I will let the company, talk to them right now. Yeah. We, we witnessed the whole thing if you need the information from us.
Speaker 2: We are here to brief you on the very tragic events of, this evening, where we know a passenger plane, coming to the airport here collided with a military helicopter. Our fire department, DC Fire and EMS, supported by fire departments and police departments from across the Washington Metropolitan Region are executing a rescue operation in the Potomac River. They are working diligently in very dark and cold conditions, cold water, to execute this rescue operation. We have had the opportunity to be briefed by American Airlines officials. I'm told, that American Airlines leadership is on the way, to Washington, as well, and officials are in the airport talking to families now.
We do have a 1 800 number where families should contact us, excuse me, should contact American Airlines for more information, and we will be, providing that information shortly. I am going to, turn to a number of officials to provide as much information as we can, this evening, and we expect to have more frequent, briefings, at daylight.
Speaker 3: 1st and most importantly, I'd like to express our deep sorrow about these events. This is a difficult day for all of us at American Airlines, and our efforts now are focused entirely on the needs of our passengers, crew members, partners, first responders, along with their families and loved ones. We're cooperating fully with the National Transportation Safety Board and its investigation, and we'll continue to provide all the information we can. Our cooperation is without pause, and we want to learn everything we can about today's events. That work will take time, but anything we can do now, we're doing.
And right now, that means focusing on taking care of all passengers and crew involved as well as their families. Members of our Go team will be on their way to Washington DC, and I'll be heading there shortly as well. We understand and appreciate the people are eager for information. Please know that we'll continue to share accurate and timely information as soon as we can, but anything we must report must be accurate. We owe that to everyone involved.
Speaker 4: Our thoughts and prayers to, those individuals who were impacted by, the events tonight, their families. We know this is a very difficult time for all of them. I wanna join the mayor and everyone here to, extend our thank you, to the first responders who, again, in very difficult, situations and environments, are out there, searching, and and attempting a rescue. Tonight, I spoke with President Trump, and his team in the situation room. I had a conversation with secretary Pete Hegseth, as well.
And then with the Kansas delegation and the mayor, and, others in, leadership as well as governor Youngkin from Virginia and governor Kelly from Kansas. From the Department of Transportation and FAA's perspective, we are going to offer, full support, to, those on the ground, to the mayor, but also to, the NTSB, who is going to be conducting the investigation, in this matter. We are gonna provide all the support that's necessary.
Speaker 5: This evening at 8:48, an alert was sounded initiating a reg a large regional response to a report of an aircraft, crash on approach to the airport. This response includes first in Metropolitan Washington Airport's Authority's Fire Department, the District of Columbia Fire Department, the Metropolitan Police Department, and the US Park Police, to respond into into the area and to sort that out. At 858, the first units arrived on the scene and found an aircraft in the water and began rescue operations. This incident has grown. There's currently about 300 responders working.
We have boats from all throughout the region, police and fire boats. We have a mutual aid agreement in Washington DC, the National Capital Region Mutual Aid Agreement administered by the Metropolitan Washington, Council of Governments, and we're all operating under that. We're operating under a unified command. All everybody's together. So we also have requested state police helicopters from Maryland, and the coast guard helicopter is working.
So this is a state and federal response as well. US coast guard's got some boats in the water as well. So it's a highly complex operation. The conditions out there are extremely rough for the responders. It's cold.
They're dealing with relatively, windy conditions. Wind is hard, out on the river. So they're out there working. We're keeping doing everything we can to keep them safe.
Speaker 6: Our unit says chief D'Aure alluded to. In 2048, we received a alert from the FAA tower of an aircraft incident involving a commercial aircraft and a helicopter. Our units immediately responded and deployed 3 boats and immediately called for mutual aid resources. Again, as chief Donnelly said, it's an active operation that's gonna last many hours as we continue to work through recovery efforts and rescue operations. This will be ongoing for quite a while.
Our thoughts and prayers are with the families and, our communities, and we, appreciate all DC's support to our agency and our federal partners.