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Collision Investigation & TN Passes School Choice | Afternoon Update | 1.31.25
Fri, 31 Jan 2025
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I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley. It's Friday, January 31st, and this is your Morning Wire afternoon update.
Investigators continue to piece together a troubling sequence of errors that led to the deadly collision between an Army Black Hawk helicopter and a passenger jet. Early findings suggest the helicopter was flying at least 100 feet higher than it should have and a half mile off course when it collided with the jet.
Compounding the danger, the air traffic controller on duty was handling both helicopter and airplane traffic simultaneously. That's a workload typically shared by two controllers. Near misses at Reagan have been an escalating concern.
In April, a commercial pilot warned that a military helicopter came dangerously close to his jet while landing, saying, quote, "...I cannot imagine what business is so pressing that these helicopters are allowed to cross the path of airliners carrying hundreds of people."
A decade earlier, another pilot wrote that helicopter crossings near the runway posed an unacceptable risk to passenger aircraft. Despite years of warnings, congestion at Reagan has only increased.
Boston University will shut down the Center for Anti-Racist Research, founded by Ibram Kendi. Kendi's Boston Center received millions of dollars in funding, but faced scrutiny over financial mismanagement and limited output, leading to staff layoffs. The center failed to deliver on its promises with little published research and key initiatives left stagnant.
Kendi, who has profited significantly from so-called anti-racist speaking engagements, will open a new institute at Howard University that will focus on global racial issues, technology, and climate change.
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