President Trump on Thursday morning held a press conference to discuss the horrific crash at Reagan International Airport last night.
President Trump said, “Some things happened that never should have happened.”
President Trump: Seconds after that, there was the crash that took place. Well, you follow them in. That means everything’s fine. Follow them in. You had a pilot problem from the standpoint of the helicopter because it was visual. It was a very clear night. It was cold, but clear, and clear as you could be.
The American Airlines plane had lights blazing. They had all their landing lights on. I could see it from the Kennedy Center tape… But we had a situation where you had a helicopter that had the ability to stop… You can stop a helicopter very quickly. It had the ability to go up or down. It had the ability to turn. And the turn it made was not the correct turn, obviously. And it did somewhat the opposite of what it was told. We don’t know that that would have been the difference because the timing was so tight.
It was so little. There was so little time to think. But what you did have is you had vision. The helicopter had vision of the plane because you had vision of it all the way, perfect vision of it all the way from at Kennedy Center, where the tape was taken.
And for some reason, there weren’t adjustments made. Again, you could have slowed down the helicopter substantially. You could have stopped the helicopter. You could have gone up, you could have gone down, you could have gone straight up, straight down, you could have turned, you could have done a million different endeavors.
For some reason, it just kept going and then made a slight turn at the very end, and by that time, it was too late. They shouldn’t have been at the same height, because if it was at the same height, you could have gone under it or over it, and nobody realized or they didn’t say that it’s at the same height. At the same height, it still wouldn’t have been great, but you would have missed it by quite a bit. It could have been a thousand feet higher, it could have been 200 feet lower, but it was exactly at the same height, and somebody should have been able to point that out.
Video via Midnight Rider.
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