How could a mid-air collision happen?

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4.6 • 911 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

An American Airlines flight and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter collided in mid-air on Wednesday, killing all 67 people aboard both aircraft. Retired pilot Richard Levy explains what might have gone wrong. And, Israel's order to cease UNRWA operations on Israeli soil takes effect Thursday. The ban effectively cuts off the UN agency from delivering aid to Gaza. UNRWA spokesperson Juliette Touma explains what the ban means for Palestinians who depend on the organization. Then, Dave Sheffield has been dumpster diving for 15 years. Here & Now's Chris Bentley reports on how he and his wife — who he met through dumpster diving — reuse and upcycle their finds.

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0:00.0	Support for here and now anytime comes from MathWorks, creator of MATLAB and Simulink software for technical computing and model-based design.
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0:16.3	What I've seen so far, do I think this was preventable? Absolutely.
0:20.3	In one of the nation's busiest air spaces,
0:22.9	a U.S. Army helicopter and a passenger jet collided, killing all 67 people on board. The question
0:29.5	everyone's asking, and which probably won't have an answer for some time, is why?
0:44.3	Yeah. is why. It's Thursday, January 30th, and this is here and now anytime from NPR and WBUR.
0:50.1	I'm Chris Bentley.
0:54.4	Today on the show, what Israel's ban on UNRWA means for Palestinians in Gaza.
1:00.3	Also, we'll meet a couple who turned a passion for dumpster diving into a thriving business.
1:05.9	Before we had the social media accounts, it was really just like a hobby.
1:09.5	Like some people would go fishing or hunting.
1:12.0	I go dumpster dive. But first, what we know about the crash that plunged an American
1:21.3	Airlines flight and an Army Black Hawk helicopter into the Potomac River last night. Everyone on board is presumed dead,
1:29.1	making this the deadliest air disaster in the U.S. since 2001. We heard Transportation
1:35.1	Secretary Sean Duffy at the top of the show saying this was absolutely preventable.
1:40.9	Duffy was sworn into his post just two days ago, by the way. He also said this in a press conference
1:46.1	today. Everyone who flies in American skies expects that we fly safely, that when you depart
1:53.2	in airport, you get to your destination. That didn't happen last night. Fatal commercial airline
2:00.4	crashes in the U.S. are rare.
2:02.5	According to the Aviation Safety Network, the last one was in July 2013, when an Asiana Airlines flight crash landed in San Francisco.
2:11.5	In 2009, 49 passengers and crew were killed in a crash north of Buffalo Niagara Airport.
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