we do know that a crj-700 bombardier plane is a twin jet engine. it can hold up to at most 78 passengers it's usually a copilot and one maybe two there and we do a video and we are making sure that the video is accurate. we want to check before we put it on air but there is video of the crash we believe as soon as we can verify with the video being shown to you. and very quickly over to you. what kind of response and how quick was the response? >> almost instantaneous. we saw emergency cars from all different directions and the geography is very important with the intersection of three states such as maryland and virginia and the district of columbia. and with the federal government and maryland and emergency teams responding as well as virginia teams responding. and as we get more footage you will see teams from three different states with the federal government getting to the scene which is good for many of these people and for those potential victims you see them responding at the same time. with this reagan international airport in virginia and

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canadair became bombardier. now it's mitsubishi, but this one would have been a bombardier model because it's only been mitsubishi for a couple of years. this is a 70 seater plane. it's very common as a regional jet. it's got a pretty good safety record actually. the again, we don't want to speculate because we don't know because the ntsb investigators will get to the bottom of this thing. but what do you say to people who might be thinking, i'm booked on one of these things? >> well. >> holly. >> as as i say in my books, you know, when it's a cliche, the most dangerous part of your your trip is going to be the drive to the airport. that's literally true. you've got something like 1 in 10,000,000 chances of being killed in an airliner accident. try to get those kind of odds from your surgeon. next time you you go. >> in to. >> visit him. it's amazingly safe. and, captain tiggs, i thought last hour did a great job of explaining all about all the layers of the sympathy, sympathy of safety, as he called it, which i

. >> this statement a psa airlines bombardier. >> crj 700. >> regional jet collided in. mid-air with a sikorsky h-60 helicopter while on approach to runway 33 at reagan washington national. airport around. 9 p.m. local time. psa was operating flight. five 342 as american airlines. it departed from wichita, kansas. joining us now, nbc news. tom costello. tom, that aircraft that they identified as the american airlines aircraft. what do we know about the seating capacity of that plane? >> well, this is if it's a typical a typical crj, a regional jet. and this is made by bombardier and is flying on behalf of american airlines, 50 to 100 people generally is what those will will take. as you know, it's a single aisle flight and it flies into the smaller airports, generally around the country. right. you'd be leaving from reagan or you'd be going into reagan, but you'd be going from smaller airports. in other words, you wouldn't necessarily fly that plane from, you know, jfk airport, for example, or from this is going to be a smaller airport or airplane, i should say, coming i

and there are this, the cr 1700, the cr j 700 used to be made by by canadair became bombardier. now it's mitsubishi, but this one would have been a bombardier model because it's only been mitsubishi for a couple of years. this is a 70 seater plane. it's very common as a regional jet. it's got a pretty good safety record actually. the again, we don't want to speculate because we don't know because the ntsb investigators will get to the bottom of this thing. but what do you say to people who might be thinking i'm booked on one of these things? >> well, holly, as i say in my books, you know, when it's a cliche, the most dangerous part of your your trip is going to be the drive to the airport. that's literally true. you've got something like 1 in 10,000,000 chances of being killed in an airliner accident. try to get those kind of odds from your surgeon. next time you you go in to visit him. it's amazingly safe. and, captain tiggs, i thought last hour did a great job of explaining all about all the layers of the sympathy, sympathy of safety, as he called it, which i like that term. i

again, what the faa is saying that we are seeing here is the mid-air collision of a bombardier crj 700ichita to washington, dc, colliding mid-air with a sikorsky h-60 helicopter as the plane was on approach to land at runway 33 at reagan washington national airport. we've got the faa and ntsb investigating the ntsb leading the investigation. we've got what appears to be a rescue effort underway with these aircraft and their passengers potentially being in the icy potomac river right now, and that rescue operation being not only massive, but incredibly urgent, in part because of the freezing temperatures both in that water and just generally in washington, dc right now. tom, looking at this footage from earth cam, can you tell anything more? can you say anything to our viewers in terms of how to how to interpret what they're seeing here? >> boy, i really can't, rachel. and i'm looking at it with you. and, you know, all i can really discern from that is that there was some sort of a clearly an explosion from a midair, you know, mid-air contact or hit or hitting each other. now it looks t

canadair became bombardier. now it's mitsubishi, but this one would have been a bombardier model because it's only been mitsubishi for a couple of years. this is a 70 seater plane. it's very common as a regional jet. it's got a pretty good safety record actually. the again, we don't want to speculate because we don't know because the ntsb investigators will get to the bottom of this thing. but what do you say to people who might be thinking i'm booked on one of these things? >> well, holly, as i say in my books, you know, when and it's a cliche, the most dangerous part of your your trip is going to be the drive to the airport. that's literally true. you've got something like 1 in 10,000,000 chances of being killed in an airliner accident. try to get those kind of odds from your surgeon. next time you you go in to visit him. it's amazingly safe. and, captain tiegs, i thought last hour did a great job of explaining all about all the layers of the sympathy, sympathy of safety, as he called it, which i like that ter

but this one would have been made by bombardier because it's a brand new thing. it's only the last couple of years mitsubishi has been making them. but the plane was first invented in 1999. so it's not an old plane. it's got a pretty good safety record. these are not what you call mainline aircraft. so it's not the main air canada american airlines aircraft. this will be a subsidiary. >> these are american eagle. >> american eagle correct. run by psa. but but in america you have to be very well trained to be a commercial pilot. you have to spend a lot of time flying cargo around or doing other things before you get to take the controls of a commercial airliner. that's why they're so safe. other countries have accidents in similar planes because training is not as good. american pilot training is one of the finest in the world, and we have had some accidents where we've we've pinned it down to pilot training, but this doesn't feel like that sort of thing. again, we don't know. and i guarantee you will find out because we'll have information on the black boxes of b

they focused on the 477 bombardier squadron who served at the base during world war ii. he plays the drums, participate in skills u.s.a., competes in the natural history day at the county and state level, and is a student high pilot who just flew his first solo flight. congratulations on this achievement. when i think about what i learned in the boy scouts, when i think about the world we confronted, they can teach us a lot by that scout motto. let's be prepared. mr. speaker, oven the public out there sees democrats and republicans fighting and wonder where did that comity go? where the sense of being together go? mr. speaker, this past december over the christmas holidays i was surprised by one of my republican colleagues, the congressman from tyler, texas, who sent me a greenberg smoked turkey out of the blue. mr. speaker, that is the civility that exists between democrats and republicans. i want to thank that member of congress who represents tyler, texas, and that greenberg smoked turkey sure was delicious. mr. speaker, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gent

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you have elmber air, bombardier, china coming into it, but those are smaller mid-sized jets.buy one of those two, that's kind of it. the bear case, a little bit harder, david. do you feel like boeing has fixed what many view as a management culture that has gone wrong? is that fixed with kelly ortberg? >> yeah, so you're right. in terms of highlighting the demand environment, the airlines need 1,500, 1,600 airplanes a year. and right now, they're only able to deliver like 800. both airbus and boeing have five-year plus backlogs. that's the positive part. on the cultural side, no. it's still early days there. it's going to take a while. it's not something that you can't get into the kind of mess that boeing has got into. and turn that around quickly. and like i said, i didn't think that that would happen with someone, you know, leading the company that was an internal person. i thought we needed someone from the outside, and they now have that person. and, you know, he's, you know, four to five months into the job. it's going to take a while. i think finally settling the machi

air flight 3407, bombardier regional jet crashed on approach to buffalo, new york, kill all 49 onboard one on the ground. investigators determined pilot error was to blame. but thinquiry highlighted serious ms problems facing regional carriers, including grueling work schedules for pilots, long distance communities and exhaustion. investigators believe neither pilot in the air crash had slept well the night before after commuting long distances cross-country. that accident triggered the first faa rule change to address pilot fatigue in five decades. including a maximum duty day for pilots of nine to 14 hours, maximum flying time of nine to ten hours, and more rest time between flights. last night's crash evoking another disaster in the potomac more than four decades ago. in 1982, air florida flight 90 a boeing 737 crashed into a bridge just seconds after taking off from national airport in a blinding snowstorm. leaving 78 dead. five people escaped the wreckage? the icy river with cameras capturing the dramatic rescues. investigators found the flight crew's failure to desies the aircraf

. >> has there been any contact with bombardier, especially with this being the airplane? >> no no. >> do you know whether where they are in the process of contacting all the families? >> we do not. and, you know, most of this incident occurred at dc, right? >> this has been a news conference from wichita, kansas, mayor lily wu leading that. obviously, everyone in wichita city of about some 400,000 people has to be concerned this morning about the possibility they know someone that was on that american airlines flight 5342 to washington, dc. no survivors, 64 people on board, 60 passengers, four crew. they did not have a lot of information there. they weren't going to get out ahead of notifying those families, of the people who were on board. and they really were from everywhere as well. we know u.s. figure skating. the federation had a number of people on board that believed to be citizens from outside the united states as well. we will, of course, report when we do learn the identities of those on board. in the meantime, let's go back to washington, dc. rene marsh has bee

the bombardier that manufactures the jet. and then, of course, they'll be bringing on experts from the army, which was operating the helicopter. so they're forming their teams right now and kind of sitting back watching the recovery while they do a little bit of homework. and then as soon as the search and rescue effort has ended, then the ntsb begins to attempt to access the wreckage, pull the recorders and begin to analyze what went wrong here. >> yeah, it's going to be a lot of interest as they try to figure out what exactly led to what we're seeing. watch unfold. this morning, former faa and ntsb investigator jeff guzzetti. thank you. we're going to look ahead to some more coverage of this air disaster in washington, d.c, but we're also going to take a look at what's happening here at home in politics. there's some heated moments from robert f kennedy jr. s first confirmation hearing yesterday to become health and human services secretary. and also ahead this morning, the white house backtracks on president trump's federa

the bombardier flight that that was in the sky. what would that look like to a blackhawk pilot? >> well, they, uh, you know, they've got their lighting. um, but it also is kind of cluttered in general with the ground lighting, the reflections of the ground light against the river. there's it's a lot of lighting in that area near the airport. um, that could have obstructed, um, seeing seeing the airliner. and that was also another airliner taking off. off the other off the other runway that i believe. but when air traffic control asked if they had visual, that's the one they had visual on. >> so again, it is confusing as to what exactly they saw and when or thought they saw and when. less to you? you flown in to reagan so many times on different approaches. again, we put that video up before. we don't need to see it again. it is hard to watch, but what do the airline pilots see? what is it that they're concentrating on well. >> you're it's. >> a very challenging airport. >> has been been said. >> you know, in previous. >> segments. >> but, uh. you're focused. >> on getting the ai

um, psa airlines, bombardier crj 700, regional jet collided in mid-air with a sikorsky h-60 helicopterthat's a blackhawk, uh, while on approach to runway 33 at reagan national airport around 9 p.m. local time. psa was operating flight 5342 for american airlines. it departed wichita, kansas. faa will investigate. ntsb will investigate. ntsb will lead the investigation, the faa says, and the faa says it will provide more information as it comes in the the huge news here. not only was this a crash involving a commercial flight, this flight, 5342 from wichita, kansas, to reagan national airport, but that this was a mid-air collision with a helicopter. this is a midair collision. not with any helicopter. this was a midair collision with a h-60, which is more colloquially known as the black hawk helicopter. uh, the the the approach. i'm stumbling over my words here because this is just so staggering that there is a midair collision involving a commercial airliner. commercial flights are equipped, uh, for ages with a system called tcas. traffic collision avoidance system. it tells the pilots

the american flight was a bombardier crj 700. this is a single aisle, two seats on both sides. it's an aircraft much like this one. it was pretty full. 60 passengers, four crew, the u.s. army, uh, 60 black hawk helicopter. it holds 12 people. there were three on board, but it is a big, powerful aircraft. i'm going to show the video that we have of the collision. i know it is difficult to look at, but it's a little instructive as to what happened here. let me x this out and play the video. all right. that's a wide angle right there. you're going to see a closer view in just one second i want to pause it. you can see the two different aircraft right here light here and a light here. and one thing i just want to point out is how low they are. they're very, very close to the ground, relatively speaking. that's because the plane was coming in for a landing and a helicopter was operating close to the ground. if we keep on playing this, you see the two blips of light. and then you see the collision right there. again, witnesses saw this, cameras saw this. we are waiting for much more

john: today, the wreckage of the bombardier crj700, a popular regional jet, sat in waist-deep water splito three pieces. as first responders continued their work, questions swirled about how the crash could have happened on a clear night in the nation's capital. during a white house news conference, president trump blamed the three soldiers flying the helicopter. pres. trump: the people and the helicopter should have seen where they were going. i can't imagine people with 20/20 vision not seeing what's happening up there. again, they shouldn't have been at the same height. john: he also blamed, without offering proof, dei policies that he said had been set in motion by former presidents obama and biden and former transportation secretary pete buttigieg. pres. trump: the faa is actively recruiting workers who suffer severe intellectual disabilities, psychiatric problems and other mental and physical conditions under a diversity and inclusion hiring initiative spelled out on the agency's web site. question: i'm trying to figure out how you can come to the conclusion right now that diversity

aviation battalion davison army airfield fort belvoir collided in mid-air with an american airlines bombardieregional jet flight 5342 last night at ronald reagan washington airport. the faa,ntsb, and the u.s. army will investigate. the ntsb will lead the investigation. that answers your question right there, lawrence. we are working with local officials and will provide any additional information once it becomes available. john, as somebody who has been on that river a lot, we're looking at some of the small boats that are patrolling the area and right in the middle it looks like debris. we see a couple of different patches of stuff looks like part of the plane or part of the chopper. how deep is the water there? >> well, here's what i can tell you. there is a big sort of fan area that comes off of the eastern side of the airport. and the water there is anywhere between 3 and 12 feet deep. there is a ship channel far eastern side 31 feet deep. but it's very, very shallow water in there. and it's very muddy as well. and as we saw when value jet went down in the florida everglades, most of the p

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