Total Disaster in DC: Mid-Air Collision Leaves No Survivors Washington, DC woke up to the kind of news you’d expect from a war zone—an American Eagle jet carrying 64 souls collides mid-air with a US Army Black Hawk helicopter. The result? A fireball over the Potomac, a body count that keeps climbing, and a parade of officials scrambling to explain away yet another catastrophic failure of government-controlled infrastructure. The facts, as reported so far: American Eagle Flight 5342 departed Wichita, Kansas, bound for Washington. It never made it. US Army Black Hawk with three soldiers onboard was operating near Reagan National Airport, apparently without broadcasting ADS-B tracking data—a crucial signal that prevents exactly this kind of disaster. Reagan Tower was…

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