The Scotsman Bulletin Thursday January 30 2025 #PlaneCrash
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00:00Hello and welcome to the Daily Video Bulletin for this Thursday.
00:04My name is Dale Miller.
00:05I'm Deputy Editor of The Scotsman.
00:08I'm joined by Assistant Editor, Jane Bradley.
00:10Jane, we'll get to talking about a very significant incident in the US shortly,
00:15but firstly, the front page of today's Scotsman.
00:18And we're led on Rachel Reeves insisting Heathrow,
00:22where the UK Labor government have approved a third runway,
00:26would be a boost for Scottish exports.
00:29It's a significant decision.
00:31There has been a high level of opposition to it.
00:35It does potentially have implications for Scotland on top of the operators that serve Heathrow,
00:41but also have flights coming into Scottish airports.
00:44Will extra capacity at Heathrow affect the numbers of flights going into and out of Scottish airports?
00:51And will it actually boost exports? Scottish Salmon, for example,
00:55a lot of the products travel through Heathrow.
00:58It's one to watch. You can read that full story at Scotsman.com
01:01and our transport correspondent Alistair Dalton has done an explainer about it as well.
01:07And if you look at the top left corner of the front page,
01:10the Six Nations now officially just 48 hours away with Scotland's opening match coming against Italy.
01:16Jane, we're here to talk about more live developments, though.
01:21In Washington, DC, there's been a major emergency incident.
01:24What can you tell us?
01:26Yeah. So last night at about 9 p.m.
01:29U.S. East Coast time, there was a plane crash between a passenger jet
01:33and a military helicopter as the plane was coming into land at an airport in Washington,
01:38D.C. It was around 60 people believed to be on board.
01:42The two aircraft crashed into a river which was near the airport.
01:47And rescuers are still trying to to recover, you know, salvage what they can, rescue who they can.
01:56So far, there's been reports that 19 bodies have been recovered from the river.
02:01And so far, there haven't been any live survivors.
02:05But they are still rescue teams still working to try to to try to find any people that they can and salvage what they can.
02:13And Jane, you've also written a report about some of the potential passengers on board,
02:20which tell them to both young and senior athletes.
02:24Can you tell us about that? Yeah.
02:26So U.S. figure skating, which is the figure skating body for the U.S.,
02:30has said that they've confirmed there are several athletes on board the flight.
02:35U.S. national figure skating championships were taking place last weekend in Wichita, where the plane was coming from.
02:42It's understood there was a camp held after the national championships for mainly junior level skaters who are teenagers.
02:49They're the elite national team, but at junior level rather than senior adult level.
02:55So it's likely that a lot of the athletes they're referring to who are on board the plane are very young people,
03:00teenagers, some possibly even children. So, yes, it's absolutely horrific situation.
03:07There will also be some coaches and parents of these children and teenagers on board the plane.
03:13And it's believed that the Russian world champions, Pairs champions from 1994 are among the people who are on board the plane.
03:23They are coaches. It's also thought their son could possibly have been there, too,
03:28because he is an elite skater and is likely to have attended the camp, which is why they may well have been there.
03:34So it's yeah, there's still a lot of information to come out.
03:37Still a lot we don't know, but it's a very tragic situation.
03:41And we know it's a lot of pictures that are emerging are still in the dark because of the time over there,
03:48roughly approximately five hours behind, I think. So we're looking just before five thirty in the morning.
03:54But there are some unusual, given the two vehicles involved, unusual nature of this incident and plenty of unanswered questions.
04:03Yeah, absolutely. I mean, the military helicopters are supposed to watch out for civil aircraft that are flying.
04:10That's that's the way it works. They're supposed to be very aware of where aircraft are coming in and avoid any chance of any kind of collision.
04:19And obviously, in this case, you know, that has not happened. It's been confirmed,
04:23I think, that the plane was flying in a normal manner. It was coming into land in a normal manner.
04:27There was nothing unusual about, you know, it didn't seem initially like anything necessarily gone wrong with the plane or the pilot.
04:33So it seems like it's potentially been an error or some malfunction on the part of the helicopter which has collided with the plane.
04:41But obviously that will all be that will all come out once, you know, investigators have recovered a black box, that kind of thing.
04:47Find out what actually happened. And just lastly, do we know whether Donald Trump, the new U.S.
04:53president, has had anything to say about the incident yet? Yes. I mean, he has obviously commented on it.
04:59He has said that, you know, he's offered his condolences.
05:04He's also sort of questioned what the helicopter, you know, what the helicopter role in this incident is,
05:10why it didn't move away from the plane, but has obviously said that authorities will be investigating and trying to find out and get to the bottom of this.
05:20You can read Jane's full story at Scotsman.com on the incident and the involvement of a host of members from the U.S.
05:30figure skating community in that event. You'll be able to find the latest coverage under our World tab.
05:36It's in the navigation bar, also prominently on our homepage at the time of recording this bulletin.
05:42There's plenty else happening today. We've got First Minister's questions.
05:47There's developments around the North Sea as well.
05:50With a story from our deputy political editor, David Boll, with both the Rose Door and the Jack Door, oil field permissions being scrapped by courts.
05:59This is a significant decision. That means the companies involved can proceed with scoping work on the two projects,
06:07but they will need to re-seek permission to actually go ahead with any drilling on the sites.
06:12It's been hailed by environmental groups as a turning point and an historic win.
06:17I think the full significance will come out over the coming weeks and months about what it means for these two major developments in the North Sea.
06:24You can read that story as well at Scotsman.com. Thanks, Jane.
06:28Thanks for everyone for joining us.