Air crash in the USA leaves shocked experts

“I’ve been to him many times. A lot of people in Washington who goes to Kansas has been in him,” he told AFP.

In a comment on his network, Truth Social, President Donald Trump said the flight, which was preparing to land at Ronald Reagan airport from Wichita, Kansas, “was on a perfect and routine approach line.”

The collision occurred in a very busy but strictly controlled airspace, in the skies of a city that did not live a major air tragedy since the al Qaeda attack on September 11, 2001. The previous accident dates back to 1982.

According to Ian Petchenik of FlightCadar24, the collision occurred about 90 meters altitude, seconds before the landing. “The head of the track is on the banks of the river. The flight of Kansas was ready to land,” he told Wusa-TV.

Airspace around Ronald Reagan airport usually records intense helicopter traffic, including military flights between Pentagon and nearby bases, marine-body patrols and helicopters, service to the White House.

Commercial planes such as the injured person are equipped with TCAs (Traffic Alert and Collision Prevention System), designed to alert pilots about the presence of nearby planes and give them last -minute instructions to avoid beating.