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unbiased your favorite source of unbiased news and legal analysis welcome back to unbibiased. Today is Thursday, January 30th. Let's talk about some news.

Unfortunately, we do have to start this episode on a sad note, but I promise we'll turn it around

and finish things on a positive note by the end of the episode. Last night, a regional

American Airlines flight collided midair with a Black Hawk helicopter just as the

commercial flight was about to land at Reagan International Airport in Washington, D.C.

The operation did switch to a recovery effort this morning, and it is said to be the deadliest

aviation disaster in the United States since November 12, 2001, when an American Airlines flight crashed

in New York just months after 9-11, killing all 260 people on board.

The airplane involved here was a bombardier, CR7, sorry, CRJ 700 regional jet with 64 people on board, 60 passengers, and four crew members,

and the helicopter was an Army UH-60 helicopter with three on board, one officer, one warrant

officer, and a crew chief. Both landed in the Potomac River following the crash.

The plane is currently in three pieces and about waste deep water, whereas the helicopter is upside down in the water.

Defense Secretary Pete Huggs death has since said that the helicopter was on an annual proficiency training flight and that it was a fairly experienced crew that was doing an

annual required night evaluation where they were wearing night vision goggles and that it seems as

if there was some sort of elevation issue that the DOD and Army are currently investigating.

Grainy video footage does show the plane making its final descent at about

350 feet in the air and the army helicopter almost going towards the plane before you see a big

flash of light. The first alert of the crash was made at 8.48 p.m. Local time. Within hours,

there were more than 300 first responders working at the scene.

We have since also obtained some air traffic control recordings, and in those recordings,

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