UPDATE: Fox News reports (unconfirmed) that survivors are being pulled out of the water.

UPDATE 2: President Trump briefed.

UPDATE 3: Live ATC recordings unearthed.

A horror-show is unfolding in DC, as early reports are coming in of an American Airlines plane colliding with what Fox News is reporting is a Sikorsky military helicopter.

Residents reported hearing a loud “boom,” and all flights are reportedly cancelled.

Webcam video has now been made public portending to be of the crash.

It looks like it could be bad, as it is being reported that the plane actually crashed into the icy Potomac.

Here is video of the first responders.

Time will tell if there are any survivors.

We are hoping and praying for the best in what could be a very difficult situation. Here’s what the flight tracker showed:

Reports are coming in fast.

An X user reported hearing first responders in action.

DC Fire and EMS confirmed that a small plane did indeed crash.

A reported for Laura Loomer is headed to the scene.

Reporter Nick Sortor claimed that fatalities have been reported and a search and rescue operation is underway over the Potomac.

Fox News has live coverage here.

We hate to say that this is not actually unexpected thanks to an Obama-era move to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Air Traffic Control and the FAA.

Revolver:

The case of Damian Campbell and the near-collision incident in Austin, together with numerous other such incidents, raise troubling questions that deserve a deeper dive. Revolver News conducted an investigation into the matter in considerable depth. We spoke with several air traffic and FAA personnel, most of whom insisted on staying anonymous and off the record.

While the disturbing decline in aviation safety is complex and multifaceted, we identified two major contributing factors that have received scant media attention. The first such factor is the likely contribution of disastrous COVID-era policies to the staffing shortage of many air traffic control rooms. The second factor is that aggressive affirmative action policies implemented during the Obama administration have resulted in a catastrophic collapse in the quality of controllers. In short, COVID policies have gutted the quantity of air traffic controllers, and diversity policies have gutted the quality of air traffic controllers, creating unprecedented danger for the aviation industry.

We have called what’s happening in aviation a “crisis of competency” where airlines are putting progressive policies above safety.

The aggressive substitution of merit in favor of diversity has led to a so-called competency crisis, jeopardizing not only our ability to generate innovative technology but, in a more dire sense, our ability to simply maintain the proper functioning of various complex systems vital to our existence as a first-world civilization. Despite the superficiality of “diversity” as a matter of rhetoric, the reality of diversity as an ideological, cultural, and legal imperative is not merely cosmetic—far from it.

While a full treatment of this topic would run far outside the scope of this article, we have discussed elsewhere the manner and extent to which the affirmative action regime is embedded deeply into the law, economy, and every major institution in the country.

Sadly, there’s so much more to the story about our faltering airlines. We encourage you to read the entire Revolver piece and get informed.