@davis_winkie - Davis Winkie
DC plane crash: The military helicopter that collided with the plane was an Army-piloted Black Hawk on a "routine training flight," Joint Task Force-National Capitol Region media chief Heather Chairez tells me. It belonged to B Company, 12th Aviation Battalion.
@davis_winkie - Davis Winkie
In case anyone is interested in learning more about how the Army investigates fatal crashes, I wrote an @ArmyTimes cover story about aviation safety investigations back in 2022. https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2022/06/21/inside-the-army-center-reconstructing-catastrophes-to-save-lives/
@davis_winkie - Davis Winkie
It will always haunt me that I covered her death without realizing it. I checked on her after I saw the crash, but I didn’t notice the text failed to deliver until the next day, after I’d penned two stories. https://t.co/ESbSNRBCQy