DC Plane Crash, Ret FBI Coffindaffer With New Insight Into Tragedy
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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🗓️ 3 February 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
What happens when decades of bureaucratic negligence finally catch up to reality? A catastrophic mid-air collision near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport has everyone asking the same question—how could this have been prevented? Tony Brueski and retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer break down the chilling details of the American Airlines regional jet and U.S. Army Black Hawk disaster, exposing a system plagued by severe air traffic control shortages and a history of near misses that have been ignored for far too long. Was this an inevitable tragedy, or was it a result of a system stretched so thin that luck just ran out? And more importantly, is anyone actually going to fix this, or are we just waiting for the next disaster?
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| 0:23.0 | They thought they'd get away with it. |
| 0:25.0 | Until now, this is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske, featuring retired FBI special agent, |
| 0:32.1 | Jennifer Coffin Daffer. |
| 0:34.1 | On January 29th of 2025, the tragic mid-air collision occurred near Ronald Reagan, Washington National Airport, DCA, resulting in the deaths of all 67 individuals aboard an American Airlines regional jet and U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter. |
| 0:52.5 | While the investigation is ongoing, early reports indicate severe staffing shortages |
| 0:59.1 | in the DCA Air Traffic Control Tower, a problem that has plagued the Federal Aviation |
| 1:05.3 | Administration for years, like literally going back to about 1981. |
| 1:11.5 | Today, we welcome retired FBI special agent Jennifer Coffendaffer, an expert in criminal |
| 1:17.1 | investigations. |
| 1:18.6 | Let's talk about the aviation incident here and the systematic failures with the regulatory |
| 1:25.4 | oversight. |
| 1:27.0 | Let's examine the developments in this case and dissect the evidence and dig a little bit deeper into this. |
| 1:33.1 | Given your expertise in the federal investigations, when you look at the case, do you see a systematic failure that could have been prevented? |
| 1:41.8 | And what is the first thing that stands out to you from an investigative standpoint? |
| 1:47.2 | Well, Tony, when you look at this investigatively, it's jaw dropping really because I know most |
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