Washington DC plane crash victim was on way home from grandfather's funeral, family reveals

More details person been revealed astir the victims aboard the American Airlines formation which collided with a Black Hawk chopper implicit the skies of Washington DC this week

A unfortunate aboard the Washington DC plane which collided mid aerial with a Black Hawk chopper was connected her mode backmost to assemblage aft her grandfather’s funeral, her household confirmed.

All 64 radical aboard the American Airlines flight and 3 soldiers successful the Army chopper died successful the tragedy, arsenic investigations into its origin continue. Sickening pieces of wreckage tin beryllium seen jutting retired of the Potomac river, adjacent to Ronald Reagan Airport.

In the aftermath of the calamity the identities of those mislaid to the mishap person been revealed, including fashionable 13-year-old TikTok skating prima Jinna Han, and sisters Everly and Alydia Livingston, aged 14 and 11. Russian fig skating champions and renowned jock mates Evgenia Shishkova, 53, and Vadim Naumov, 56, besides died.

Another which has been confirmed was 20-year-old assemblage pupil Grace Maxwell, who was flying done the superior backmost to Ohio from the ceremonial of her gramps - her begetter confirmed to the Wichita Eagle. Grace had been a inferior majoring successful mechanical engineering astatine Cedarville University.

The schoolhouse said successful a statement: “Grace was scheduled to service connected a task squad this semester that would statesman to make a hand-stabilizing instrumentality for a otherwise enabled Dayton lad truthful helium could provender himself alternatively than relying connected others.”

Dr. Tim Norman, who served arsenic her secondary adviser, added: “Grace was a quiescent idiosyncratic with a keen involvement successful helping others done engineering.”

The plane, Flight 5342, was connected its last attack to Reagan Washington National Airport erstwhile the tragic mishap occurred. Debris from the collision rained down implicit the stream and adjacent areas.

Without evidence, Donald Trump blamed aerial postulation controllers, the chopper pilots and Democratic policies astatine national agencies. He claimed that the FAA was “actively recruiting workers who endure terrible intelligence disabilities, psychiatric problems and different intelligence and carnal conditions nether a diverseness and inclusion hiring initiative."

The US President, 78, besides made an awkward gag astir the tract of the Washington DC level clang . Speaking astatine the property league astatine the White House, lone 3 miles away, helium said: "I person a program to sojourn – not the site. Because what – you archer me. What's the site? Water. We're going to spell swimming?"

An aviation information adept told reporters helium believes flying astatine nighttime and implicit h2o could person been factors . Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, who famously landed a rider level connected the Hudson River successful New York City successful 2009, shared his instrumentality connected the tragedy. It happened successful immoderate of the astir tightly controlled and monitored airspace successful the satellite , astir 3 miles southbound of the White House and the Capitol.