Bloomberg Audio Studios, podcasts, radio news, single best idea on a different day, and you know, I will be honest, it's twenty four hours for the team. One of our members is at Disney World and he was involved in the discussion as well. But starting about one am, it was trying to piece together this horrific crash at Reagan O Reagan that we all know at Reagan National, that we all no and I had nothing to do with this. They went out and they got the horse, the goat.
Richard Levy is legendary. He flew at sixteen years old. He's a Texas loghorn, and I won't even begin to describe his resume. He is central casting in Hollywood of what an American pilot is. Forty years with American Airlines. Richard Levy on your system. Is it shattered this morning our confidence in aviation?
No, I don't think so. Is this sad and regretful? Of course it is for the families of the deceased on both sides. The PSA Regional airplane. By the way, this was a PSA Regional aircraft operator on behalf of America Airlines, but the flight crew were not part of the American airlines pilots itself, zero training from American airlines. Yes,
it had an American on its flight number. Every major airline in the US, not every, but majority have regional airlines feeding them in the smaller cities around the United States networks very successfully. In any event, this mid air collision here between THESA aircraft, the CRJA seven hundred and the Army black Hawk helicopter is very regretful and we're gonna learn from it.
We're gonna learn from it. It's gonna take months and weeks. We're not gonna speculate. We're gonna wait to hear what the pros say. But one thing we know, and we live every day here on the East Coast is a congestion of some of these airports. We talked about the growth of airports gates in America, and of course Captain Levy went to the big platforms like Ohair.
The airports in the United States, whether it's JFK, whether it's DFW. You mentioned Chicago here is based there thirty five years, magnificently manage and run. But it's a two way process there. You have the air traffic controllers on the radar as you approach or depart the airport, and then what we call the local controllers, the control tower people, and they're often working with good weather like it was
last night at four nine pm Eastern time. It's a C and B seen and so we can talk about that. But the PSA was brought into the airport normally, safely, correctly. We're going to be focusing on this Army helicopter, which we can talk about.
Seems to be where we are now is a look not only at the American Airlines regional bombardier, but also at the Army helicopter. Thanks to all of our team for an exhausting day on YouTube podcast single Best I Do