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The many questions of the Washington plane crash

30 January 2025

7:46 PM

30 January 2025

7:46 PM

‘What a terrible night this has been,’ writes President Donald Trump on his Truth Social platform. ‘God bless you all!’ Trump also expressed his bafflement as to how a Black Hawk military helicopter, operating out of Fort Belvoir in Virginia, managed to collide with American Eagle Flight 5342, a commercial passenger plane carrying 64 passengers, directly over the Potomac river as the aircraft came into land at Reagan National Airport in Washington, DC.

The airplane was on a perfect and routine line of approach to the airport,’ he said.

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