
Picture of Asra Hussain, a Pakistani woman who was on the doomed American Airlines Flight 5342. — Facebook@Asra Hussain/File
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A Pakistani woman, Asra Hussain Raza, was among the victims of a deadly mid -wind collision in the United States, including a passenger plane and a military helicopter.
She was traveling to the US Airlines flight 5342 when a US military Black Hawk train was killed by a helicopter, resulting in a tragic accident.
A few moments before the accident, Asra warned her husband, Humad Raza, and informed her that her final message would come to Washington in about 20 20 minutes before the end of the catastrophe.
His father, Hashim Raza, told Reuters, Hamad, who was waiting to come to the airport, never received another message.
“Israel was everything for us,” Hashim said in a telephone interview, holding tears with a loud voice, when he went to Missouri to visit Washington to visit her son. “And now my son is a widow at the age of 25. What should I say to him? They intended to have a baby, they were waiting for it.”
The couple met at Indiana University Bloomington, where they studied corporate finance and was a straight student.
Hashim said that when his son first met Israel, he announced: “I am going to marry her.”
Then Israel received a master’s degree in Public Health from Columbia University and got a job with a consulting group in Washington, the ultimate goal of working to improve the health of the government.
Hashim said, “She just wanted to help people, and DC, in her view, is the place to achieve her goals.” “And he was a huge cook – Indian, Italian, Chinese food. I told him to open a restaurant.”
She said she traveled to Wikita once or twice a month to help walk in the hospital.
“She was a intensive man,” she said. “She just will call to say, ‘I love you.’
He had traveled to the Vikita, Kansas, for work -related issues, and when the unfortunate incident happened, she was returning.
The pleasure of his wife in the accident lives in the United States Missouri. According to a close family friend, Hamad and Asra have been married for two years. Israel was 26 years old, while Hamad was 25 years old. Both were graduates of Indiana University. Hamad currently works as an accountant in Ernest & Young, and he mentioned that his wife never considers air travel a comfortable experience.
Raza’s father, Dr. Hashim Raza, is actually from Karachi, Pakistan. Graduate from Dow University, Dr. Raza is considered one of the most prominent doctors of Missouri and is currently serving at the Missouri Baptist Medical Center.
Prime Minister Shahbaz condoled
Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif expressed grief over the loss of lives caused by a mid -wind crash between a passenger plane and a military helicopter in Washington DC.
On his X -timeline, the Prime Minister condoled with US President Donald Trump and the American people at this difficult time.
In Washington DC, a passenger plane and a military helicopter are deeply saddened by the tragic news of a mid -wind crash. Our views and prayers are with US President Donald Trump and the American people in this difficult time.
Prime Minister Shahbaz also expressed his sympathy with the families of the people who lost their loved ones and prayed for the protection of the survivors.
Deaths and results
All 60 passengers and four crew members have been confirmed to board a notorious US airline flight.
In addition, three military personnel in the Black Hawk helicopter also lost their lives. The passenger plane’s debris was recovered in three parts of the river Potomak, but not all the bodies have been recovered yet.
US officials said Thursday that it is not yet clear why a regional jet and US military helicopter collided with Washington Airport, killing 67 people in US aerial catastrophe in more than 20 years. –
Investigators recovered the so -called black boxes from the plane, an American airlines bombarded jet contained 60 passengers and four crew members, who collided with the Army Black Hawk helicopter and collided with the Potomic River when they Ronald Reagan Washington Prepared to land at the national airport. Wednesday night
The National Transportation Safety Board said that investigators recovered the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder from the Bombard CrJ700 passenger jet. The preliminary report about the incident is expected within 30 days.
US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the two aircraft were flying on standard flight samples on Wednesday and there was no malfunction in communication.
Radio communication shows that air traffic controllers informed the helicopter about the nearby jet and ordered it to change the course.
Instead of a controller two, a local plane and helicopter was handling traffic in Reagan National on Wednesday night, a situation was considered “not normal” but a shortage of traffic was considered appropriate, briefing on this matter. According to a person given.
Sources said that the decision to combine duties in the evening is not trivial. The New York Times first reported the post of “not normal”.
The lack of air traffic controllers in the United States in recent years has promoted safety concerns. At numerous facilities, controllers work within a week of overdose and six days of work to cover the shortage. The Federal Aviation Administration has about 3,000 less controllers than it.
This was the deadliest air catastrophe since November 2001, when an American airline jet crashed after leaving New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport, with all 260 people on the ship and Five people were killed.
Reagan National’s main runway is the busiest United States, with more than 800 take -off and landing daily. Records show that the National Transportation Safety Board has investigated nine accidents or incidents at the airport in this century, two of which were deadly.
– with additional input from Reuters