“Was Dimming Runway Lights to Blame? Captain Sully Reveals Alarming Theory Behind DC Plane Crash!”
“It’s hard to have the diligence and the dedication to adhere to best practices every minute of every hour of every day, every week, every month, and every year for a decades-long aviation career. Any lapse could potentially be fatal, even though we have a lot of safety.
“If all the dominoes line up in the wrong way, we could have on rare occasions a catastrophic event.
All 67 passengers are dead, confirmed President Donald Trump
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“Given enough time, given enough flights, given enough flight hours, eventually whatever can happen will happen unless we work very hard to prevent every incident from turning into an accident.
He added: “I’m just devastated by this. We have the obligation to learn from every failure and improve.”
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The commercial plane collided with the chopper on descent into Reagan National Airport, submerging both aircraft into the icy waters of the Potomac River. All 67 passengers (64 on the plane, 3 on the helicopter) are dead, President Donald Trump said in the White House press briefing room.
The American Airlines Flight 5342 had taken off from Wichita, Kansas, and the helicopter was on a training flight with a crew based at Fort Belvoir in Virginia.
Sully said that the technology at the Reagan National Airport, which opened in 1941, is “old”
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In January 2009, Captain Sullenberger landed an Airbus A320 in the Hudson River. That plane had encountered double engine failure after colliding with a flock of geese shortly after takeoff. All 155 people on board survived the plane’s landing into the Hudson River.
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