The US Army has refused to reveal the identity of the female pilot who was one of three soldiers on board a military helicopter that collided mid-air with a passenger plane in a tragic air crash in Washington DC on January 29.
The New York Post reported on February 1 that the US Army refused to name the female pilot who died in a Black Hawk military helicopter that collided with an American Airlines passenger plane near Ronald Reagan National Airport in the Washington DC area.
The tragic plane crash on January 29 killed all 64 people on board the passenger plane and three pilots on the military helicopter, including a female pilot.
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In a recent announcement, the US Army said that the family requested that the female pilot's identity not be made public. The Army said that the two remaining soldiers on the Black Hawk were Ryan Austin O'Hara, 28, and Andrew Loyd Eaves, 39.
"At the request of the family, the name of the third soldier will not be released at this time," according to the US Army.
Black Hawk helicopter wreckage in the Potomac River
The Telegraph quoted officer Jonathan Koziol, chief of staff of the US Army Air Forces, as saying that the female soldier was an experienced pilot with more than 500 hours of flying time. Pilot Eaves was the instructor on the flight and had more than 1,000 hours of flying time.
The bodies of Soldier Eaves and the female soldier have not been found, after both planes crashed into the Potomac River in the incident.
A US Army Black Hawk helicopter
In a related development, The Straits Times quoted a senior US official as saying that the military helicopter was on a routine training flight.
Accordingly, the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter unit of the 12th Airborne Battalion has the special mission of quickly evacuating high-ranking US officials to safe locations such as a location in Pennsylvania in the event of a disaster or attack on the US government.
In an interview with Fox News on January 31, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the helicopter was conducting a “continuous government exercise” that allows pilots to “rehearse in a way that reflects a real-world scenario.” He declined to provide further details because he did not want to “get into anything that is classified.”
The US government has not disclosed details of the evacuation plan for senior officials, but it is likely to involve Raven Rock Mountain, a facility in Pennsylvania that has been used since the 1950s as an alternate command center in the event of nuclear war.
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