FREEDOM EDEN: American Airlines Flight 5342

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Wednesday, February 11, 2026

U.S. Figure Skater Maxim Naumov

Encouraged to see this.

US Athlete Maxim Naumov makes the sign of the cross in front of millions as he steps onto the ice for his Olympic debut, honoring his late parents who died in the devastating D.C. plane crash that took the lives of 67 people.

Inspired by his faith. pic.twitter.com/YbWfbAVTGC
— Lila Rose (@LilaGraceRose) February 11, 2026

God bless him.

Sunday, April 27, 2025

Report on Black Hawk Helicopter Crash with American Airlines Flight

REPORT: The female pilot flying the Black Hawk helicopter that collided with an American Airlines flight, made multiple mistakes and ignored a warning from her co-pilot, according to the New York Times.

Tragic.

The New York Times reports that there were multiple mistakes made… pic.twitter.com/duetUVd16J
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) April 27, 2025

Facts are facts.

Friday, February 7, 2025

Hillary Clinton Goes Low

What an awful and vile tweet. I literally just left a conference of airport directors. This is a complete and total lie. Nothing the President did or Secretary Duffy did had anything to do with the tragedy. Hillary knows this but - as usual - politics matter more than human life… https://t.co/d3YdNCYJ5T
— Chris Barron 🇺🇸 (@ChrisRBarron) February 6, 2025

Hillary Clinton should go away.
I can't think of the last time she made a public statement or posted a tweet that wasn't ugly, a lie, or both.

I know you’re lashing out because DOGE is uncovering your family’s obscene grifting via USAID, but I won’t let you lie and distort facts. The FAA administrator announced he resigned over a month before Trump took office, and the air traffic controllers were always exempt from… https://t.co/WOI5K4242D
— Secretary Sean Duffy (@SecDuffy) February 6, 2025

Tuesday, February 4, 2025

Airport Employees Arrested for Leaking DC Crash Video to CNN

NEW: Two airport employees arrested for leaking the video footage of the D.C. collision last week to CNN.

67 people are deceased because people didn't do their jobs right and they're arresting people who shared a video?

Two Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority… pic.twitter.com/1fzSpuPimC
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) February 4, 2025

From WUSA-TV:

Two employees of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority have been charged after authorities say they leaked a video of the American Airlines Flight 5342 crash with an Army Black Hawk helicopter to CNN.
The MWAA said in a statement that the employees made an "unauthorized copy" of the video and gave it to the media outlet.
A Rockville man was charged with computer trespass. He was booked into the Arlington County Adult Detention Center and later released on his own recognizance.
An Upper Marlboro man was also charged with computer trespass. He was released on a summons by the magistrate.

From the Washington Post:

Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority employee Mohamed Lamine Mbengue, 21, of Rockville, Maryland, was charged Friday with computer trespass for “making an unauthorized copy of Airports Authority records,” authority spokeswoman Crystal Nosal said Monday. Mbengue was booked into the Arlington County jail and released.
On Sunday, authority employee Jonathan Savoy, 45, of Upper Marlboro, Maryland, was arrested and charged with computer trespass, Nosal said. He also was released pending trial.

They really did not want that video to be seen by the public.

I can understand the employees being fired for violating policy. They made a copy of video that didn't belong to them and distributed it to CNN.
You can lie under oath, steal, commit arson, and even murder without getting arrested. Apparently, computer trepass is something that won't be tolerated. These employees could be hailed as heroes for being whistleblowers.
I just wonder why the video was kept from the public in the first place.

Sunday, February 2, 2025

Remembering Peter, Donna, Everly, and Alydia Livingston

A proud mom aboard the doomed American Airlines flight snapped a photo of her two beaming ice skater daughters, both Olympic hopefuls, just before it took off from Kansas on Wednesday.
Donna Livingston captured Everly, 14, and Alydia, 11, as well as herself and her husband,… pic.twitter.com/jfZHSKNMLo
— josette caruso (@josettecaruso) February 1, 2025

Rest in peace.

United Airlines Flight Houston to New York Evacuated, Plane on Fire

A United Airlines flight from Houston to LaGuardia caught fire and had to turn back and be evacuated.

What is going on? pic.twitter.com/x57RNOrGbw
— Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) February 2, 2025

🚨United Airlines flight was evacuated this morning when the plane caught fire during takeoff in Houston Texas.
pic.twitter.com/CghT0cCXpc
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) February 2, 2025

Of course, people are on edge after the two horrific recent crashes.
Air travel is very safe, but it doesn't feel that way. Arriving at one's destination safely without incident shouldn't be a matter of luck.

Sean Duffy Torches Jake Tapper

Sean Duffy just TORCHED Jake Tapper after he tried to trap him with a trick question.

Tapper: "Is there any specific evidence that backs up President Trump's claims that DEI or FAA hiring practices are responsible in any way for this tragedy?"

Duffy: "I do know that in the last… pic.twitter.com/DfMugEkF9Q
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) February 2, 2025

Safety, not the idiotic DEI agenda, is the proper focus of the Department of Transportation and the Federal Aviation Administration.
Sean Duffy is doing great.
Jake Tapper wants to focus on attacking President Trump. It's a very tiresome game.

Rebecca Lobach

JUST IN: The third soldier aboard the Black Hawk that crashed into the American Airlines plane has been identified as Capt. Rebecca Lobach, who previously worked as a White House aide in the Biden admin.

Lobach, 28, served as an aviation officer in the Army.

“We are devastated… pic.twitter.com/7IaS5Ln0ex
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) February 1, 2025

Rest in peace.

Secretary Duffy - Update on Plane Crashes in D.C. and Philadelphia

My update on the crashes near Reagan National Airport and in Philadelphia: pic.twitter.com/WZgDtcuHJ4
— Secretary Sean Duffy (@SecDuffy) February 1, 2025

Friday, January 31, 2025

Ryan O'Hara and Andrew Eaves

🚨 JUST IN: One of the soldiers who lost his life in the helicopter crash last night has been identified as Ryan O’Hara

Ryan was the Blackhawk’s Crew Chief, and leaves behind a wife and 1-year-old son.

Heartbreaking. pic.twitter.com/L9kQfcoqVF
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) January 30, 2025

Andrew Eaves, Blackhawk pilot and his beautiful family. What a terrible loss. pic.twitter.com/uqqVs9hAez
— Bill Mitchell (@mitchellvii) January 31, 2025

May they rest in peace.
God be with the wives and children of Ryan and Andrew.
Still waiting for the third soldier aboard the Black Hawk to be identified.
From Newsweek:

In a briefing with reporters on Thursday, Jonathan Koziol, chief of staff for Army aviation, said that the pilot commanding the flight was female with more than 500 hours of flight time. The male instructor pilot had over 1,000 hours of flight time, and the crew chief also had hundreds of hours of flight time.

"[T]he pilot commanding the flight was female."

“Our deepest condolences go out to all the families and friends impacted during this tragedy, and we will support them through this difficult time. Our top priority is to assist in the recovery efforts, while fully cooperating with the @NTSB, @FAA, and other investigative… pic.twitter.com/wyQ0WBaMKv
— U.S. Army (@USArmy) January 31, 2025
The identities of the males on the Black Hawk have been released, but not the female pilot commanding the flight.

Why is this only on Twitter? https://t.co/sbRAX3n8jr
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) January 31, 2025

From the New York Times:

The Army on Friday released the names of two male aviators who were killed when their Black Hawk helicopter collided with an American Airlines regional jet on Wednesday night. But in an extraordinary step, the Army did not identify the third crew member, a female pilot, citing her family’s request for privacy.
The names of service members killed during a peacetime accident or in combat zones are typically made public about 24 hours after their relatives have been notified.
“At the request of the family, the name of the third soldier will not be released at this time. That pilot is also DUSTWUN,” the Army said in a statement in a reference to “duty status-whereabouts unknown,” a temporary designation until her remains are recovered from the river where the aircraft went down.

Secretary Sean Duffy

This is not what I expected my first day on the job to be, but I do believe that God puts us exactly where we’re supposed to be.

Tonight, I met with some of the families who lost their loved ones in the plane and helicopter crash last night. Their pain is immeasurable. I can’t… pic.twitter.com/rH16isqfdt
— Secretary Sean Duffy (@SecDuffy) January 31, 2025

I'm so proud of Wisconsinite Sean Duffy. I believe he is exactly where he's supposed to be.

Video: New Angles of Midair Collision

How is this possible!?!

pic.twitter.com/vahNzteaR7
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) January 31, 2025

It appears the Blackhawk flew right into the American Airlines plane. It doesn't appear there was any effort to avoid colliding.
This is extremely disturbing.

Thursday, January 30, 2025

Trump Calls Out Pete Buttigieg

🚨 #BREAKING: President Trump just EVISCERATED the FAA, and blamed their incompetence on their DEI practices during his press briefing on the DC plane crash

Holy CRAP.

Trump also CALLED OUT Pothole Pete Buttigieg, saying he had a "good line of bullsh*t"

"He has run FAA right… pic.twitter.com/JHQjZd6w71
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) January 30, 2025

The Democrats did so much damage to the country during Biden's "presidency."
I'm so thankful the adults are back in charge.

Trump Trounces CNN's Kaitlan Collins

JUST IN: President Trump implies CNN’s Kaitlan Collins is stupid during a press conference on the Reagan Airport tragedy.

Collins: “You are blaming Democrats and DEI policies and air traffic control… Don't you think you're getting ahead of the investigation right now?”

Trump:… pic.twitter.com/kp6HWsDtr2
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) January 30, 2025

The Legacy Media always lose when they try to take on President Trump.

Angela Yang and Sean Kay

Youth ice partners Angela Yang and Sean Kay were among the victims in the horrific DC plane crash last night.

They were children. The video below is one of their final performances before the tragedy.

Rest in peace. pic.twitter.com/kW8Oda7kp6
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) January 30, 2025

Heartbreaking.
Rest in peace.

DCA Air Traffic Control Tower Understaffed at Time of Collision

More here: https://t.co/oIzAKc6g5k
— Mike Baker (@ByMikeBaker) January 30, 2025

New details:

Flight 5342 was initially supposed to land at Reagan National's main runway but was then asked by air traffic controllers to change to an alternative runway.https://t.co/UVG5Jw28Ty
— Mike Baker (@ByMikeBaker) January 30, 2025

Inexcusable.
President Trump and his administration will end this insanity.

FAA Rejected 3,000 Air Traffic Controllers For Being White

Did you know that 3,000 top-performing applicants for air traffic controllers were REJECTED by FAA for being white? pic.twitter.com/OsENBuvvlO
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) January 30, 2025

Why the heII does it matter what skin color or gender identity our air traffic controllers are? pic.twitter.com/dqATCsbk0h
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) January 30, 2025

The toxic DEI policies are harmful, even deadly.

Blackhawk and American Airlines Plane Collide

🚨 #BREAKING: New angle of the American Airlines plane vs. Blackhawk crash in DC

The Blackhawk sees to be almost TOTALLY dark. pic.twitter.com/C6AXBSeXjZ
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) January 30, 2025

Helicopter and plane crash in DC. Video here. Pilots can respond, but how is this possible? pic.twitter.com/OiTsLCDWJa
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) January 30, 2025

How does a military helicopter crash into a passenger plane? Unfathomable levels of incompetence or a deliberate act?

Pray for survivors. pic.twitter.com/D8BZam02tL
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) January 30, 2025

U.S. Figure Skating - Athletes, Coaches, Family Members - Aboard AA 5342

To the ones that support our skaters every step of the way. ❤️

Thank you to the families and fans that came to Wichita or watched at home. We felt the love! #PrevagenUSChamps pic.twitter.com/EKIqSt6ocV
— U.S. Figure Skating (@USFigureSkating) January 29, 2025

JUST IN: @USFigureSkating confirming several members of their skating community were aboard American Airlines Flight 5342.

They say their athletes, coaches, and family members were returning home from the National Development Camp held in in Wichita, Kansas

Full statement⬇️ pic.twitter.com/oqi4rTozJS
— Jacqueline Matter (@JMatter_TV) January 30, 2025

U.S. Figure Skating can confirm that several members of our skating community were sadly aboard American Airlines Flight 5342, which collided with a helicopter yesterday evening in Washington, D.C. These athletes, coaches, and family members were returning home from the National…
— U.S. Figure Skating (@USFigureSkating) January 30, 2025

🚨UPDATE: The DC flight that crashed reportedly consisted of US novice youth figure skaters and their coaches that were coming back from a training camp held in Kansas.

Russian Figure Skating Champions, Evgenia Shishkova & Vadim Naumov were also reported to be on the flight. pic.twitter.com/KFjKuCkV58
— Autism Capital 🧩 (@AutismCapital) January 30, 2025

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"[Obama] told me I did a great job. The first lady said the same thing. I got a 'well done' from the president, I'm on cloud nine."

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--JIM DOYLE, Liar

"He's a terrorist. Rush Limbaugh is a terrorist."

--JOY BEHAR

"You know, I just want to say to her (Sarah Palin), just very quickly...F--- you."

--JON STEWART

"Should I be worried about being a slave and being returned to slavery?"

--WHOOPI GOLDBERG

"I also believe that America is the greatest sin against God."

--FR. MICHAEL PFLEGER

"Those who think they can revive the stinking corpse of the usurping and fake Israeli regime by throwing a birthday party are seriously mistaken. Today the reason for the Zionist regime's existence is questioned, and this regime is on its way to annihilation."

--MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD

"We'll be eight degrees hotter in ten, not ten but 30 or 40 years and basically none of the crops will grow. Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals."

--TED TURNER

"Look, [Mitt] Romney comes from a religion founded by a criminal who was anti-American, pro-slavery, and a rapist. And he comes from that lineage and says, 'I respect this religion fully.'"

--LAWRENCE O'DONNELL

"Mexico does not end at its borders... Where there is a Mexican, there is Mexico."

--FELIPE CALDERON

"The planet has a fever. If your baby has a fever, you go to the doctor. If the doctor says you need to intervene here, you don't say, 'Well, I read a science fiction novel that told me it's not a problem.' If the crib's on fire, you don't speculate that the baby is flame retardant."

--AL GORE

"Don't fear the terrorists. They're mothers and fathers."

--ROSIE O'DONNELL

"Is America ready for a black president? Well, I say we just had a retarded one. When did being black become a bigger deterrent than being retarded?"

--CHRIS ROCK

"Shut the f--- up! Shut up if you can't take a joke [about President Bush]!"

--BARBRA STREISAND

"Right, oh, yeah, Happy 9/11! Celebrate the day, right?"

--JAMES BROLIN, Mr. Barbra Streisand

"I think President Bush very well may have signed an authorization for the 9/11 attacks."

--KEVIN BARRETT, UW-MADISON Lecturer

"I said what I said. I am not guilty."

--SADDAM HUSSEIN

"Terri will not be starved to death. Her nutrition and hydration will be taken away."

--MICHAEL SCHIAVO

"On the eve of the election last month my wife Judith and I were driving home late in the afternoon and turned on the radio for the traffic and weather. What we instantly got was a freak show of political pornography: lies, distortions, and half-truths -- half-truths being perhaps the blackest of all lies. "

--BILL MOYERS

"I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for."

--HOWARD DEAN

"The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not 'insurgents' or 'terrorists' or 'The Enemy.' They are the REVOLUTION, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow -- and they will win."

--MICHAEL MOORE

"And there is no reason, Bob, that young American soldiers need to be going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children, you know, women, breaking sort of the customs of the--of--the historical customs, religious customs."

--JOHN KERRY

"F---ing retarded."

"[Republicans] can go f--- themselves!"

--RAHM EMANUEL

"I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president."

--HILLARY CLINTON

"It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is."

--BILL CLINTON

"And let me tell you something -- for the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction and just not feeling so alone in my frustration and disappointment."

--MICHELLE OBAMA

"If asking a billionaire to pay the same tax rate as a Jew, uh, as a janitor, makes me a warrior for the working class, I wear that with a badge of honor."

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"If you love me, you got to help me pass this bill."

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"[F]or most of my lifetime, the United States was such a dominant economic power, we were such a large market, our industry, our technology, our manufacturing was so significant that we always met the rest of the world economically on our terms. And now, because of the incredible rise of India and China and Brazil and other countries, the United States remains the largest economic and the largest market but there’s real competition out there. And that's potentially healthy. It makes -- Michelle was saying earlier I like tough questions because it keeps me on my toes. Well, this will keep America on its toes."

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"If Latinos sit out the election instead of saying, 'We're gonna PUNISH OUR ENEMIES and we're gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us,' if they don't see that kind of upsurge in voting in this election, then I think it's gonna be harder and that's why I think it's so important that people focus on voting on November 2."

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"We don't mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but THEY GOTTA SIT IN BACK."

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"We can absorb a terrorist attack. We'll do everything we can to prevent it, but even a 9/11, even the biggest attack ever... we absorbed it and we are stronger."

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"We're buying shrimp, guys."

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"We are the ones we've been waiting for."

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"We talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answers so I know whose ass to kick."

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"We're not trying to push financial reform because we begrudge success that's fairly earned. I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money. But, you know, part of the American way is, you know, you can just keep on making it if you’re providing a good product or you're providing good service. We don't want people to stop fulfilling the core responsibilities of the financial system to help grow the economy."

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"If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."

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"It is a vital national security interest of the United States to reduce these conflicts because whether we like it or not, we remain a dominant military superpower, and when conflicts break out, one way or another we get pulled into them. And that ends up costing us significantly in terms of both blood and treasure."

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"But I -- I think that the most important thing for the public to understand is, we're not handling any of these cases any different than the Bush administration handled them all through 9/11."

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"One such translator was an American of Haitian descent, representative of the extraordinary work that our men and women in uniform do all around the world -- Navy CORPSE-MAN Christian [sic] Brossard. And lying on a gurney aboard the USNS Comfort, a woman asked Christopher: 'Where do you come from? What country? After my operation,' she said, 'I will pray for that country.' And in Creole, CORPSE-MAN Brossard responded, 'Etazini.' The United States of America."

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"I hear that Dr. Joe Medicine Crow was around, and so I want to give a shout-out to that Congressional Medal of Honor winner. It's good to see you."

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"We are God's partners in matters of life and death."

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"[T]he Cambridge police acted stupidly."

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"I am going to teach [my daughters] first about values and morals, but if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby."

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"The reforms we seek would bring greater competition, choice, savings, and INEFFICIENCIES to our health care system."

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"Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go. Alaska and Hawaii, I was not allowed to go to even though I really wanted to visit, but my staff would not justify it."

--BARACK OBAMA

NOTEWORTHY QUOTATIONS

"In a word, freedom is ever new. It is a challenge held out to each generation, and it must constantly be won over for the cause of good.... [A] democracy without values can lose its very soul."

--POPE BENEDICT XVI

"When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society."

--POPE JOHN PAUL II

"We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop."

--MOTHER TERESA

"To promote choice for its own sake is more akin to self-indulgence than self-determination. It is the philosophy of a pre-schooler in a candy shop."

--BRIAN POLLARD, M.D.

"The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people."

--MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

"The house we hope to build is not for my generation but for yours. It is your future that matters. And I hope that when you are my age, you will be able to say as I have been able to say: We lived in freedom. We lived lives that were a statement, not an apology."

--RONALD REAGAN

"Liberalism is the philosophy of the stupid."

--MARK LEVIN

"We are Warriors forever."

--BO ELLIS

"I know how much you're supposed to enjoy every sandwich, you know."

--WARREN ZEVON

FREEDOM EDEN

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Tuesday, February 4, 2025

Airport Employees Arrested for Leaking DC Crash Video to CNN

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Sean Duffy Torches Jake Tapper

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Trump Calls Out Pete Buttigieg

Trump Trounces CNN's Kaitlan Collins

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FAA Rejected 3,000 Air Traffic Controllers For Being White

Blackhawk and American Airlines Plane Collide

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