A plane crash in Washington D.C. leaves 64 passengers dead after an army helicopter collides with the aircraft. Was it a mistake or a potential terrorist attack?
This morning, I woke up, and when I turned on the television, the images of a plane crash in Washington D.C. in the United States of America caught me by surprise. A passenger plane with sixty-four passengers on board was rammed by an army helicopter. Immediately all alarm bells went off for me, how on earth is this possible in a country like the United State of America, where safety and control are so important? There was a reaction from the newly elected President Trump almost immediately after the terrible accident.
Why didn't the helicopter go up or down?
The first reaction I heard and saw on my television was that of President Trump he said: "The lights were on, why didn't the army helicopter go up or down, or didn't it turn, why didn't the control tower tell the helicopter what to do, instead of asking, if they saw the plane? This is a bad situation that should have been prevented, President Trump wrote later that morning on his Truth social platform. According to the General Manager of American Airlines, the blame for this accident undoubtedly lies with the crew of the army helicopter.
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Was army helicopter to blame for the accident?
The director of American Airlines Robert Isom immediately blamed the Army helicopter during the quickly organized press conference. Isom said: "At this point, we don't know why the helicopter entered the path of the passenger plane." Both aircraft, both the army helicopter and the passenger plane, followed a "standard flight pattern" according to the newly appointed Secretary of Transport Sean Duffy. So, the crew of the plane knew that a helicopter was nearby. According to his testimony, the fuselage of the plane is upside down in three pieces, torn into three pieces, scattered in different places.
Wasn't this "accident" a terrorist attack?
After I had recovered for a while from the initial shock of this "accident" in which at least twenty-four bodies have now been recovered, and we have to fear the worst for the rest of the at least thirty-nine missing, a very anxious feeling crept up on me. I thought: it won't be another terrorist attack, will it?" I hope I won't be right at a later stage, and mind you, I'd rather not be right either, but with Trump in power, of course, you never know. A President who, after calling on his own people to storm "The Capitol" in his previous term of office?
