Disaster Over the Potomac — What We Know
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We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country. That's why we are here. Noble Gold Investments is the official gold sponsor of The Charlie Kirk Show, a company that specializes in gold IRAs and physical delivery of precious metals. Learn how you could protect your wealth with Noble Gold Investments at noblegoldinvestments.com. That is noblegoldinvestments.com. It's where I buy all of my gold. Go to noblegoldinvestments.com. Late last night, our son, and we're here in Washington, D.C., soon to be coming back to Arizona. Our son woke up after he heard a very, very loud boom. We weren't really sure what was going on, and Erica soothed him back to sleep. Our hotel, where we were staying, was right near the Potomac. And all of a sudden we started to see 10, 20, 30, 40 very, very bright emergency lights gather and congregate on the Virginia side of the Potomac. My phone started to light up and people were saying, was there some sort of plane crash?
What's going on in the ground? And I mean, Twitter went ablaze. You pray and you hope for the best in situations like this. And just so happens, we were up very late last night. We saw over the Potomac the entire emergency response of what happened at Reagan National Airport. Being that close to it makes it even starker and more dramatic. Last night, here's what we know. We're not going to speculate. We're not going to guess. We're just going to tell you the facts. Last evening, a flight from Wichita, Kansas, in a CRJ-700 collided with an Army helicopter. It was a clear night. There was not a cloud in the sky. It was perfect flying conditions. The CRJ-700, as pictured right there, seemed to intersect with the Army helicopter at the exact, precise, and right moment. From there, the plane seemed to spiral downward into the Potomac as it was on its final approach. We believe the helicopter had a similar fate. We haven't heard much about the helicopter, who was flying, and what was going on in that situation.
And from that moment, the first responders worked all night. And Sean Duffy, who is the Secretary of Transportation, was... sworn in hours beforehand, and boy, trial by fire, he's been doing a great job. Very proud of Sean Duffy. About five hours on the job, he gets thrown into what is looking like one of the deadliest plane crashes in a generation. You can see there an infographic. Our hotel room was just right up there, so we were witnessing some of the response from The Army helicopter was doing a training exercise with three soldiers on board. The CRJ 700, the American Airlines flight, was on a approach on a shorter runway in Reagan. Now, this is personal for a lot of us on the team and a lot of us in the audience.
I've landed in Reagan probably 200 times over the last 12 years. I've been a passenger in this approach. Reagan Airport has a very, very tightly controlled airspace. And we're not going to spend time speculating because it's not helpful for anybody. This is one of the shortest runways in the country and in the nation. Reagan is very, very close to downtown Washington. It's kind of just fit right there on the Potomac. The plane goes down, and rescue efforts were attempted all evening. And tragically, around 4 a.m. Eastern, it transitioned from a rescue effort to a recovery effort. Now, we do not know how many passengers were on board, but rough estimates are showing that 60 to 65 people likely died in this plane crash. The first big U.S. plane crash since 2009.
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