Information on the tragic collision between Atsushi and Army helicopters near Washington DC’s Ronal Dragan National Airport is said to have killed 67 people on both aircraft.
The crash occurred just before Wednesday at 9:00 pm on Wednesday, when a 5342 American Airlines from Wichita, Kansas, trying to land the land and collided with the Black Hawk helicopter. A passenger aircraft with 60 passengers and four crews and a helicopter carrying three soldiers fell on the dark and ice -like Potomac River.
The 5342 captain was identified as a pilot Jonasan Gampos, who graduated from Embrey -Doles Airlines in Day Naving, Florida. He lived at least last year in a nearby ormond beach last year.
“The Embry Riddle Airlines is deeply sad to know the death of Captain Jonathan Campos (Aeronaut Science, ’15). Our idea is his family influenced by this tragic accident. It is the idea of family and loved ones.
Campos was also trained as a flight instructor at a nearby News Mar Navi.
Although the passenger list has not been released yet, President Donald Trump said at a press conference on Thursday that it will be released shortly in cooperation with American Airlines. He did not specify the time.
According to Washington’s firefighting chief, John Donnell, as of Thursday morning, 28 bodies were collected from almost freezing water.
Among the airplanes are a group of figure skaters, their coaches, and their families who have returned from the US figure skating championship in Wichita, the US -American governing, US skating in the United States. According to the statement. Among the skaters competing at the event, there was a florida bond.
The United Society has posted to social media that “UA SteamFitters Local 602 four members” is one of the victims. “I hope these members will be forever in our hearts, and God will bless them and their loved ones. May them take a rest with peace of mind.”
Virginia’s Laudon County Public School reported that “multiple victims” were former LCPS students.
Pilot Jonasan Campus, American Flight 5342 captain, pilot trained in Florida
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University has identified the flight captain as Jonathan Campos. According to the record, he was 34 and graduated from college in 2015. Other records indicate that he had trained nearby. Social media families and families to television stations have identified 5342 vice officers as Samuel Lily (29).
The official list of people killed in the crash has not been released yet.
The FAA shows a pilot license for Ormond Beach’s Jonasan Gampos issued on May 2, 2023. A pilot license for the use of a private rotor craft helicopter, a mechanic license (still latest), and a flight instructor license that expired.
Jonathan Campus was trained at the Epic Flight Academy on the News Marnavich on the east coast of Florida, where he got a flight instructor certificate.
According to Epic Flight Academy, Campos was certified by C-172 and PA-28 aircraft and worked at PSA airlines. PSA Airlines is a wholly owned subsidiary of American Airlines and part of the American Airlines Group.
The flight school issued a statement on Facebook on Thursday and conveyed Campus as “a skilled and dedicated pilot with an unbelievable passion for flight”.
Pilot, American Flight 5342 cabin crew
The family has notified the 28 -year -old Sam Lilley, the son of Fox 5 Atlanta, to one of the two pilots of American Airlines Flight 5342.
According to Fox, Pilot Timothy Lilly, who had been serving as a helicopter pilot for 20 years, couldn’t believe he was the son’s flight at first, but what Sam always did -his worst fear When confirmed, 5 Atlanta.
“I was a pilot of the Army helicopter for 20 years. In the 1990s I had regularly entered Pentagon. I can tell you if you are flying on the route on the Potomac and wearing night vision goggles. Timothy Lilly said it would be very difficult to see the plane.
“If you are not wearing goggles, you may have a chance.”
Timothy Lilly said his son Sam and their families are connected to the Savannah area. “He was engaged to get married in the fall,” said Timothy Lilly on a Facebook post.
Our figure skater on a board airplane that collided with the Potmax River
Figure skating in the United States was in a statement in Wichita, Kansas, and several skaters, coaches, and their families are flying after attending a development camp following the championship ended on Sunday, January 26. I said.
“We are devastating the tragedy that cannot be described in this word, and keeps the victim’s family in our hearts,” said the US figure skating.
The skater Jinna Han and Spencer Lane were in the people who were killed with their mother, coach Evgenia Shishikoba and Vadim Naumov, said Dougibe, a CEO of Boston’s skate club on Thursday. Ta.
D-Virginia’s SUHAS SUBRAMANYAM member has identified another figure skating coach, Inna Volyanskaya. The round of John Marabira in Virginia, Virginia, missed the DC flight because the pet dog was too large, but said that he missed the Atlanta flight instead, according to Daily Beast.
Contribution: Christopher Kang, Jorge L. Ortis, Dina Boyles Palver, USA TODAY
(This story has been updated and new information has been added.)
