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Speaker 2: But right now it's time for this.
Speaker 3: And now it's time for bas and Sweet Day Up Day,
Speaker 3: featuring veteran news anchor kt F on tweets. Here are
Speaker 3: the important stories he's currently tracking from around the world.
Speaker 3: I'd generally like to come in here and discuss something
Speaker 3: fun that'll make us laugh a lot, but I don't
Speaker 3: know that I have that for you today. Guys. We
Speaker 3: had a big accident last night. American Airlines flight from
Speaker 3: witch Talk, Kansas was carrying sixty four people collided midair
Speaker 3: with a military helicopter. That military helicopter was on a
Speaker 3: proficiency training flight last night, but the people in the
Speaker 3: helicopter were according to Pete Hegsith, who's doing his job
Speaker 3: now we get confirmed is they were experienced. So the
Speaker 3: flight from wash Wichital, Kansas headed to Ronald Reagan Airport
Speaker 3: in Washington, d C. It's about nine pm last night,
Speaker 3: a little before that Central time, and the US Army
Speaker 3: helicopter was carrying a crew of three. They collide, big fireball,
Speaker 3: the remnant of each craft fall into the forty two
Speaker 3: degree Potomac River and they had fireboats out there looking
Speaker 3: for bodies really quick. But as of this morning, they
Speaker 3: think no one has survived this collision. I think they've
Speaker 3: pulled out over thirty bodies from the river.
Speaker 2: I had heard that the plane was broken up into
Speaker 2: three different sections and crashed upside down. Yeah. Or when
Speaker 2: they got to where the bodies were were.
Speaker 3: They were finding people still in their seat belt. I'm
Speaker 3: going to play you one clip of audio. It's very
Speaker 3: very sad. Okay, but then we'll, you know, let's just
Speaker 3: talk about this. This is I got this from my
Speaker 3: guy Loutner. I follow him on the news. I don't
Speaker 3: know if you'll follow a former SNL writer, Steve Lugner.
Speaker 3: I followed j Moore for all my name, agenda free
Speaker 3: news coming from Steve Luckner. And you know, he kind
Speaker 3: of takes a lot of these stories, and you know,
Speaker 3: he grabs him from different sources, checks him out this
Speaker 3: and this is a guy.
Speaker 2: Who was at the airport to pick up his wife.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, yep, here we go. I'm just praying that
Speaker 2: somebody's pulling her out of the river right now. That's
Speaker 2: all I him very far.
Speaker 3: I'm just spraying the gun.
Speaker 1: When's the last time you spoke with her?
Speaker 2: She texted me we were landing, that they're landing in
Speaker 2: twenty minutes. Can he shows the text message to that point, which,
Speaker 2: by the way, feels a little invasive. Yeah, she feels invasive.
Speaker 2: And then it's still a developing situation. I don't know
Speaker 2: how you ask somebody that while they're waiting.
Speaker 3: This guy's got no emotion and it feels like nothing's
Speaker 3: going on in his head.
Speaker 2: So if someone came to talk to him, he's just
Speaker 2: going to talk to him. What it looked like to me, Yeah,
Speaker 2: he's in he's I'm sure he's shocked. Yeah, yeah, and
Speaker 2: he probably deep down inside knows that she's gone, but
Speaker 2: he's holding on to hope.
Speaker 1: I couldn't do that though.
Speaker 2: I couldn't ask it there and ask those questions. But
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, I get talking to someone I
Speaker 2: don't get let me see your phone message. He shows
Speaker 2: the text.
Speaker 3: This is what I say. He's a look yet his phone,
Speaker 3: and then they zoom in. You can kind of read it.
Speaker 3: My eyes aren't good enough. In twenty minutes, the rest
Speaker 3: of my text didn't did not get delivered.
Speaker 2: That's when I realized something might be up. Horrible.
Speaker 3: Sorry, I know that's devastating. Well, I was Thursday. We're
Speaker 3: all trying to have a good time. The week's nearly over.
Speaker 3: We had music trivia to night at Rollertown. I understand that,
Speaker 3: but I saw it last night and I was like,
Speaker 3: oh my god, well, it's real shocking because for a
Speaker 3: lot of reasons. Usually, I mean, this is the worst
Speaker 3: fatality related air crash we've had in twenty four.
Speaker 2: Years since nine.
Speaker 3: They think because there was a there was a commercial
Speaker 3: flight that hit a house in Buffalo and that was
Speaker 3: an nine.
Speaker 2: Okay, how many fatalities fifty? Oh wow, okay, yeah, the
Speaker 2: but what it? Last night? I went to dinner with
Speaker 2: the wife and then we got back and I was
Speaker 2: watching the mav game. So I'm watching it, you know,
Speaker 2: tape delayed or whatever, and my wife starts talking about
Speaker 2: an air crash in Washington, d C. And MY first
Speaker 2: thought was that she saw you. Are you guys aware
Speaker 2: of the crash that happened in nineteen eighty two? Were
Speaker 2: it happened during the day and it went into the Potomac?
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 2: And I mean, I have such vivid, vivid memories of
Speaker 2: this for two particular reasons. One, it's one of the
Speaker 2: most intense images you will ever see and you could
Speaker 2: probably go online and find it now. But the crash
Speaker 2: happened during the day, and it was the Potomac River
Speaker 2: had chunks of ice in it, right, and so the
Speaker 2: plane went in and there's helicopters on the scene. And
Speaker 2: so this is back before cable news. Okay, so you're
Speaker 2: watching this on you know, you have four channels where
Speaker 2: you live if you don't have cable, and so I'm
Speaker 2: watching this and they're showing I'm sure this was live
Speaker 2: footage during network news, but there were helicopters that had
Speaker 2: guys hanging from ropes that were going going down and
Speaker 2: trying to get survivors. Do you remember this now? And
Speaker 2: so a survivor had grabbed onto a rope and you're
Speaker 2: watching it. It's insane, and the helicopter lifts them out
Speaker 2: and then they let go and you're watching it on
Speaker 2: live teams and dude, I got drink water. It's so intense.
Speaker 2: This person, a bystander that was standing on the bridge
Speaker 2: that goes over the Potomac River jumps in to get them.
Speaker 2: It was like, I mean, I'll never forget it. It's
Speaker 2: one of you know, we always talk about first responders
Speaker 2: and heroes and all the stuff. This bystander jumped into
Speaker 2: a frozen river. It was amazing. Man, did he make
Speaker 2: it out? Do you know? Yeah? I think if I
Speaker 2: remember correctly, another helicopter came in, and yeah, you love.
Speaker 1: To see humanity in situations like that, where people are
Speaker 1: risking their lives to save a stranger.
Speaker 2: That's what gives you hope for all of us. I mean,
Speaker 2: I'll never forget that. And when my wife said, there,
Speaker 2: you know it was talking about it. I thought she
Speaker 2: saw footage of that and was talking about that, And
Speaker 2: so we belled out of the mav game and immediately
Speaker 2: flipped over to the news. And I just couldn't believe
Speaker 2: what I was seeing because I don't recall, you know,
Speaker 2: you said two thousand and nine. I don't recall the
Speaker 2: last time there was a crash in America that took
Speaker 2: this many lives.
Speaker 1: I was watching a lot of the stuff online last night,
Speaker 1: and I saw a guy who was I guess landed
Speaker 1: at the same airport like a week ago, and he
Speaker 1: was filming military helicopters outside of the window. He's like, wow,
Speaker 1: they seem really close to the plane. And he was
Speaker 1: filming it and he thought it was odd, and then
Speaker 1: he reposted it after this happened. Wow, I just I
Speaker 1: don't know why that has to happen. Why and at night?
Speaker 2: Why do you have to pray?
Speaker 1: And it looked like there's no lights or very little
Speaker 1: lights on the helicopter at all. And you know, it
Speaker 1: looks like the the angles we have of the collision,
Speaker 1: the plane is coming towards us, and so it looks
Speaker 1: as if it's not moving and a helicopter just flies
Speaker 1: right into it. Obviously it's just coming towards it us
Speaker 1: to land. But I don't know why it's necessary to
Speaker 1: have the practice with military helicopters so close to an airport.
Speaker 2: I think that's a Washington, d C thing. It is, Uh,
Speaker 2: I saw that because there's so much helicopter traffic in
Speaker 2: d C, because of the important people that are constantly.
Speaker 2: It reminds me of that that Star Wars movie where
Speaker 2: they you know, there's just all that, but they're practicing. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so they're practicing next to an airport, which.
Speaker 3: It was according to Pete Hexeth, who is what.
Speaker 2: He's three days into the job.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, all these people people knew. He said that
Speaker 3: they were experienced. It was a proficiency. They do this,
Speaker 3: I can annually, just like we'd take our HR training,
Speaker 3: you know, which hasn't helped us any as we still.
Speaker 2: HR on the rag.
Speaker 3: Yeah, as Christina can attest. Defense Secretary Pete Hesitt said,
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, sorry. Sean Duffy's the other guy, the Secretary
Speaker 3: of Transportation, and he said, this is not unusual with
Speaker 3: military aircraft flying the river and an aircraft landing now here.
Speaker 3: Is what an FAA report said late last night early
Speaker 3: this morning.
Speaker 2: Not the local TV channel, the Federal Association WA.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the ff the FAA, not the Future Farmers of
Speaker 3: America either. It would be weird if we had some
Speaker 3: goat girl out there, just like I got a pig
Speaker 3: and here's what happened.
Speaker 2: No, it's uh.
Speaker 3: The FAA said that for whatever reason at the time,
Speaker 3: which was a high traffic time, which was you know,
Speaker 3: eight p fifty here, nine to fifty there, whatever reason,
Speaker 3: they in their report there was one air traffic controller
Speaker 3: who is both working with that helicopter and the plane
Speaker 3: that was coming in.
Speaker 2: Normally that would have been a job for two oh
Speaker 2: so cutbacks, I mean.
Speaker 3: Air traffic controllers have been ditching that job because a
Speaker 3: they've been aging out of it.
Speaker 2: How many new kids like you know, hey, what do
Speaker 2: you do when you grow up? I want to be
Speaker 2: in air traffic controler. That didn't happen very often. Do
Speaker 2: you want a high pressure job that doesn't pay enough? Right,
Speaker 2: it's so stressful.
Speaker 1: And being up with my brother being a pilot and
Speaker 1: when he was flying planes and seeing how all that
Speaker 1: works is fascinating, Like you don't have to, but you
Speaker 1: can stay in communication with a tower like at all
Speaker 1: times and when when you are flying. I'm assuming in
Speaker 1: American Airlines or anybody flying just their own plane would
Speaker 1: be in contact with a tower at all times. I
Speaker 1: don't know about a military thing, like as a military
Speaker 1: are they talking to that guy and their own people and.
Speaker 2: They have to be so ye so. And that's the
Speaker 2: scariness too, of Like I mean, there was all that
Speaker 2: intensity and discussion around those drones in Jersey. But the
Speaker 2: main reason it's story, aside from the mystery of it all,
Speaker 2: is just you think about the as more things are
Speaker 2: going to the air, there's you know, the reason there's
Speaker 2: way more car craft than airplane crashes is because there's
Speaker 2: way more cars. It's just basic math. That's why this say, Hey,
Speaker 2: it's safer in the air than it is on the streets.
Speaker 2: That's going to change over time. I mean, I was
Speaker 2: thinking about this. I was watching this Kobe documentary and
Speaker 2: I'm just sitting there watching it, going it is so
Speaker 2: insane that that man died in a helicopter crash going
Speaker 2: to a basketball practice. Yeah, that is wild. Yeah, And
Speaker 2: there's gonna be more people traveling by helicopter. There's gonna
Speaker 2: be more drones. There's gonna be I mean, just think
Speaker 2: about the changes in what you see on the streets
Speaker 2: with cars. There's gonna be changes in drones that way,
Speaker 2: and transportation drones that aren't quite helicopters, and all of
Speaker 2: this is changing, and it's changing rapidly.
Speaker 3: And there's and budgets are tightening too though everywhere, and
Speaker 3: it's like that can't help. Like if they're working demanding
Speaker 3: jobs Lazyer traffic controls working six days a week, ten
Speaker 3: hour days, which is a job too where you need
Speaker 3: to be alert at all times too. Then you have
Speaker 3: to pay them more. You have to pay these people.
Speaker 3: This current airport is a report in twenty twenty three
Speaker 3: was a third short on staff Wow.
Speaker 2: This is the other reason why. You know, these things
Speaker 2: go through changes and it depends on who's inn office
Speaker 2: and what their priorities are. But I'm not a big
Speaker 2: deregulation guy because I don't think we should take more
Speaker 2: people away from those jobs. I understand you don't want
Speaker 2: to hinder business. I love business. Business should thrive. Those
Speaker 2: things should try to work hand in hand. But we've
Speaker 2: kind of created this world where it's very difficult if
Speaker 2: you don't are complete, you know, you have different opposing
Speaker 2: views on stuff to try to work together. Like I
Speaker 2: feel like there's a way we can work together, and
Speaker 2: unfortunately it'll probably take things like crashes to get everybody
Speaker 2: to come together and go, okay, this is probably how
Speaker 2: we should handle this. All Right, There you have it.
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