Asra Hussain Raza, a Pakistani woman, was among the victims of the outdoor collision between the Flight 5342 of American Airlines and a US Military Black Hawk helicopter and a subsequent accident in the Potomac river.
The accident occurred while Asra was on the way back to Washington after a work trip to Wichita, Kansas.
She had sent an SMS to her husband, Hamaad Raza, before the accident, informing her that she would land in 20 minutes. Hamaad was waiting at the airport but never received another message.
ASRA, a 26 -year -old business finance graduate from the University of Indiana, had completed her master’s degree in public health at Columbia University.
She devoted herself to improving public health and had recently started working for a consulting company in Washington, DC. She had married her husband Hamaad two years ago, and they were looking forward to starting a family.
The families of Hamaad and Asra are devastated by the loss. Asra’s stepfather, Dr. Hashim Raza, shared how caring and compassionate she was, highlighting her love for cooking and her desire to help people. Dr. Hashim, a renowned doctor in Missouri, is from Karachi, Pakistan.
The tragic incident left Hamaad, who works as an accountant in Missouri, a broken heart, while he is thinking about the couple’s future plans.
On the other hand, sixty-seven people died when a regional passenger jet of American Airlines collided with a black Hawk helicopter from the American army near the Potomac river, near the national airport of Reagan Washington on Wednesday.
Bombardier’s jet, carrying 64 people, and the Black Hawk, with three soldiers on board, crashed into the Potomac river. Officials confirmed that there were no survivors and have made rescue efforts to recovery efforts.
The collision occurred while the jet landed after a routine flight from Wichita, Kansas, with passengers, including ice skaters and former world champions.
President Trump confirmed deaths and launched a political attack on hirings of diversity, saying that tragedy was linked to previous diversity practices in aviation.
Despite the tragedy, the officials noted that there was no communication of communication between the plane. The incident, the first major accident in the United States since 2009, has raised worries about crowded airspace near Washington, DC.
The recovery operation is underway, with rescue teams faced with difficult conditions in cold and windy weather.
