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🗓️ 30 January 2025
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0:00.0 | Donald Trump's now blaming DEI, Obama, and Biden over last night's tragic crash between an American Airlines flight and a Black Hawk helicopter. |
0:06.9 | RFK Jr. Tulsi Gabbard and Cash Patel had their confirmation hearings today, and once again we saw some fireworks. |
0:12.2 | Trump's new patriotic education and indoctrination executive orders have sparked new concerns. |
0:16.3 | And what's really going on with Trump's Guantanamo Bay Migrant Plan. We're talking about all that and much more on today's |
0:21.4 | brand new Philip DeFranco show you daily dive into the news, how it's being covered and how people are reacting to it. |
0:26.4 | And unfortunately, the first thing that we have to talk about today is that tragedy struck late last night in Washington, D.C., |
0:31.3 | after an American Airlines flight and an Army Blackhawk helicopter collided near Reagan International Airport. While information is still coming in, |
0:38.4 | what we do know is that both crafts crashed into the Potomac River and there are no survivors. In that, |
0:43.3 | despite their initially being reports that some bodies were recovered and rushed to the hospital, |
0:47.0 | but even if they survived the crash, the issue was the river itself. It's currently like 36 degrees and |
0:51.7 | you don't need to be in there very long to die of hypothermia. And with that, as of recording, I'll say, recovery efforts are still ongoing and we don't know a ton about the victims. |
0:59.0 | Now there, President Trump did say in a press conference this morning that a full list will eventually be released, but until then, all we're still trying to piece together exactly what happened, but here's what we know so far. |
1:13.1 | Released audio shows at just 30 seconds before the crash, air traffic control asked the helicopter. |
1:17.3 | With CRG there being the American Airlines flighten, then they were asked again before the Black Hawk responded. |
1:26.5 | But then, just after that, the two collided right over the Potomac, with the Blackhawk being right in the flight path of the airline trying to land. |
1:32.4 | Now why the helicopter was over the approach to a runway, that is unclear, although Army helicopters near Reagan are fairly common, as past footage from the airport shows. |
1:39.9 | The area is also used by the Army for training with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegeseth saying saying it was a fairly experienced crew that was doing an annual required night evaluation, adding they did |
1:47.9 | have night vision goggles. And now, because of this incident, we're seeing that the entire 12th |
1:51.4 | Aviation Battalion will have their operations paused until an investigation is finished. |
1:54.9 | One thing we saw a lot of people mentioning is that the anti-collision mechanisms commercial |
1:58.0 | aircraft have didn't seem to help. It's called T-CAS, and the issue is that it turns itself off below 1,000 feet right around the altitude helicopters operate. |
2:05.6 | Right, and that, because at that height, the plane will always be close to something dangerous, |
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