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🗓️ 31 January 2025
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0:00.0 | Good morning. Families are reeling after the crash of the American Airlines flight from |
0:10.5 | Wichita to Washington. Many gathered in Wichita for prayer vigil. We were there. Also today, |
0:17.1 | John Stone Street is back for Culture Friday and World's Music Critic is back, Arsenio Orteza. |
0:23.6 | And later, a fond farewell to one of the guys who stays up late to get the program to you early. |
0:29.7 | Johnny Franklin, a World Radio founding father. |
0:32.6 | Now, I'm kind of a Bill Bow Bagan's, but when Nick said, you know, look at it as an adventure, |
0:39.1 | something just struck me. |
0:52.1 | It's Friday, January 31st. This is The World and Everything in it from listeners-supported World Radio. I'mrna Brown. And I'm Nick Eicher. Good morning. |
0:57.6 | Up next, Kent Covington with today's news. Investigators in the nation's capital are still |
1:04.4 | working to assemble the puzzle pieces in the wake of a deadly mid-air collision near Reagan National Airport. |
1:10.8 | Officials say it appears that the U.S. Army helicopter flew into the path of the American Airlines jet as it was in the process of landing, |
1:18.5 | but how or why that occurred is not yet clear. National Transportation Safety Board member Todd Enman. |
1:24.5 | We don't know what we know just yet. We do not know enough facts to be able to rule in or out. |
1:30.3 | Human factor, mechanical factors, that is part of the NTSB investigated process. |
1:36.2 | Speaking to reporters at the White House Defense Secretary Pete Hegzeth described the crew of |
1:41.1 | the helicopter as reasonably experienced. |
1:43.4 | Your Honor, routine annual retraining of night flights on a standard corridor for a continuity of government |
1:50.5 | mission. |
1:51.7 | The military does dangerous things. |
1:53.5 | It does routine things on the regular basis. |
1:56.4 | Tragically last night, a mistake was made. |
1:59.3 | He suggested the helicopter was not flying at the proper elevation to avoid the flight path of the incoming plane. |
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