Army Withholding Name of Female Crew Member in Reagan Airport Helicopter Collision with Passenger Plane

By Free Republic | Created at 2025-02-01 14:56:58 | Updated at 2025-02-01 18:04:20 3 hours ago

Army Withholding Name of Female Crew Member in Reagan Airport Helicopter Collision with Passenger Plane
www.thegatewaypundit.com ^ | Jan. 31, 2025 4:56 pm | Kristinn Taylor

Posted on 02/01/2025 6:50:28 AM PST by airdalechief

The Army announced Friday that at the request of the female pilot’s family, it is withholding the name of one of three Black Hawk helicopter crew members killed in the mid-air collision with a passenger plane over the Potomac River while the plane was on final approach Reagan National Airport near Washington, D.C., Wednesday night. The Army said the name “will not be released at this time”, leaving open the possibility of later public identification.

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A spokesman for the Unified Command Post for the crash told reporters Thursday the unnamed pilot is a female with 500 flying hours (Telegraph excerpt):

“It was a very experienced group,” said Jonathan Koziol, a retired Army chief warrant officer with more than 30 years' experience in flying Army helicopters. Koziol has been attached to the Unified Command Post created at Reagan National Airport to coordinate efforts following the deadly collision.

1 posted on 02/01/2025 6:50:28 AM PST by airdalechief

To: airdalechief

This crew member has surfaced on a vid I saw, claims not being on board,not being unalived, and that the chopper was a unmanned

2 posted on 02/01/2025 6:53:02 AM PST by C210N (Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.)

To: airdalechief

I heard the family was who requested the name not be released.

3 posted on 02/01/2025 6:53:33 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!ly)

To: airdalechief

"Female".....

Methinks lots of confusion from mortuary affairs on scene. Army manifest says 1 female and 2 males....but they count 3 peckers.

4 posted on 02/01/2025 6:56:13 AM PST by DCBryan1 (Inter arma enim silent leges! - Cicero )

To: airdalechief

Well, 500 flying hours is not much flying experience by military standards. Because the army is not releasing the name of individual who was at the controls at the time of the crash, reasonable minds aren’t satisfied that this person was a biological female.

5 posted on 02/01/2025 6:56:43 AM PST by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )

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