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S3 Ep272: Crime Weekly News: Helicopter Collides with Jetliner at DC Airport

Crime Weekly

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True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.89.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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0:00.0

Hey everyone. Welcome back to Crime Weekly News. I'm Derek Levasser.

0:18.1

And I'm Stephanie Harlow.

0:19.7

And we're going to get right into it.

0:20.9

You can tell by the thumbnail.

0:22.4

Unfortunately, not here for good reasons as we usually are not.

0:26.2

Are or not.

0:27.3

And this is a tough one because I think not only when we're going to get into like the actual

0:32.1

passengers and some of these young children that were on this flight, it's just incredibly sad.

0:36.8

But it's also, it comes back to all of us because we that were on this flight. It's just incredibly sad. But it's also,

0:38.5

it comes back to all of us because we all unfortunately have to fly. And so I think everyone can kind

0:43.6

of see themselves in in these people because there's photos coming from the planes and you're

0:48.5

seeing how happy they were flying home. But for anyone who doesn't know, and I think at this point

0:53.1

everyone does. American Airlines

0:54.9

Flight 5342 and an Army helicopter collided in midair over Reagan Airport in Washington, D.C.

1:01.6

This is an airport that I use all the time. It's one of the busiest airports you go through.

1:07.0

And after these two aircraft collided, they plunged into the Potomac River and it killed everyone, the people on the American Airlines flight and on the helicopter. And this is the deadliest U.S. air disaster since 2001. And you can see the videos. The videos are all out there. There's now more enhanced videos coming out. and you can really see exactly what happened.

1:29.0

And I know I was reading something this morning where they've identified most of the bodies at this point.

1:35.4

I don't know if they've had if they've identified all of them, but it's pretty close to the point where divers are out there.

1:41.8

And some of them have been transported to the hospital

1:45.1

for hypothermia because of how many hours they're putting in trying to find everyone who

1:51.1

is involved in this crash so this is the first crash we're going to talk about but unfortunately

1:56.1

it wasn't the only one last week there was also another on Friday, which we'll talk about after the

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