The National Transportation Safety Board will begin hearings Wednesday on the January midair crash between an Army Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines flight over the Potomac River, as the secretary of the military branch apologized to victims’ families.
Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll apologized Tuesday for the collision that occurred near Washington’s Reagan National Airport on Jan. 29, killing 67 people, The Washington Post reported.
He gave an apology to family members of the crash victims in a private meeting on Tuesday, for both the Army’s involvement and failing to share any information regarding the disaster with the families.
It “meant a lot to a lot of the people in the room and on the line,” Doug Lane said, whose wife Christine and 16-year-old son Spencer were both killed in the crash. He and another 167 family members wrote to Driscoll earlier this month about their disappointment with the Army’s response.
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