Father of D.C. crash victim says Black Hawk crew chief “trusted pilots with his life”
Ryan O’Hara, the father of the US Army Black Eagle pilot, said his son likes to fly over the Washington Special Administrative Region and never expressed concerns about the crowded sky, and described the crew as “maybe Ryan has history. The most respected pilot. “
“He trusted them throughout his life,” Gary O’Hara accepted CBS news in his home in Georgia on Friday. Hit the airliner who hit American AirlinesEssence This is the worst air disaster in the country for more than a decade.
Ryan O’Hara’s parents watched their son’s body on TV. wreckage Dripped in the cold Poto Mark River and transferred to the gifted car.
Gary O’hara said: “Seeing other soldiers with a suspended flag on it, it was really moving.” “But sitting there think it was my little boy- This is frustrated “”
He described the burden of a personal tragedy who was struggling Political debate on diversified recruitment At the presidential press conference.
He said, any attempt to blame the crash “of“Only increased the sadness of the family, and said that no one in the army had a place on the Black Eagle without qualifications.
He said: “You must win your own position to move it into the ladder to put it in that helicopter. They will not only give it to you. You make it.” “And you know, all soldiers who protect us, they Early stripes every day “
The 29 -year -old Ryan O’Hara grew up in the Atlanta region. Even if he was not a soldier’s family, he joined his high school ROTC. He joined the army when he was 18 years old, and he chose the army because it provided him with the opportunity to work in a black eagle helicopter.
After Ohara’s tours in Afghanistan, when Ryan was assigned to Belverburg Fort, Virginia, in Virginia, his family was relieved. He lives in Washington with his wife and 1 -year -old son.
He said, “I worry about him when he is in Afghanistan.” “When he was on the soil of the United States, you let the guards disappointed.”
Gary O’Hara said his son liked flying over the Washington Special Administrative Region at night, and sometimes sent him a monument to him, and said that “DC is the most beautiful city in the world.” He said his son had never worried about the danger of driving crowded sky.
He said he immediately began to worry after seeing a crash on Wednesday. Even if many soldiers in the Black Eagle team in the US capital, he said he immediately felt that the crash involved his son.
He said, “My wife is like, ‘No, not him.'” But my heart has just broken. “
He immediately tried to send text messages to his son after seeing the news, but this would not experience it. His DauGhter woman called late at night that night, worried about the worst situation. The next morning, these worries were hit by two soldiers.
He said, “This is really like your worst nightmare.”
When he tried to deal with trauma over the past 48 hours, he regarded what happened on the Poto Mark as a weird event.
Aohara said, “Sixty seconds or later, no accident.”
