Pete Hegseth: Military crew involved in American Airlines crash was 'fairly experienced'Sky News
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00:00At about 848 last night, a UH-60 assigned to the US Army Aviation Brigade in the
00:07Military District of Washington, Fort Belvoir, Virginia collided tragically
00:11with a civilian airliner. The unit involved, the Army unit involved, was
00:17Bravo Company 12th Aviation Battalion at Fort Belvoir. It was an annual
00:22proficiency training flight and when we look at the crew and we're not, not
00:26all can have been notified, so we're going to withhold ranks and names at
00:30this point. We do know on our side who was involved. It was a fairly experienced
00:36crew and it was doing a required annual night evaluation. They did have night
00:43vision goggles. The 12th Aviation Battalion as of now is granted a 48-hour
00:49operational pause on contingency missions as what happened is reviewed
00:54and a senior level aviation team, an investigative team, from our Aviation
00:59Safety Center was deployed last night and already is in Washington DC to
01:03investigate what's going on.