A 26-year-old woman on the PSA Airlines flight that crashed into a military helicopter on Wednesday sent a text to her husband just minutes before they were supposed to land in Washington, D.C.
Her husband, Hamaad Raza, shared her text during an interview with CBS station WUSA 9.
“We’re landing in 20,” her text read. Raza replied, but not all of his texts went through.
“That’s when I noticed something might be wrong,” he said.
Raza looked upset as he waited with a family member for news near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
He mentioned that his wife went to Wichita, Kansas for her job and was always scared of flying.
“I’m just hoping that someone is rescuing her from the river right now,” Raza said. “That’s all I can hope for.”
Raza said he hasn’t heard any news from American Airlines, which owns PSA, and only found out about the event on social media.
Many people are believed to have died after a passenger plane hit a Black Hawk army chopper in the air and then crashed into the Potomac River near Reagan Airport around 9 p.m.
Emergency workers are searching the river late at night to see if any of the 67 people in the crash are still living.
The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board are looking into the situation.
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