DC Plane Crash: Pilot Fights Flying Fears with Viral Video
US Place crash Image credit X.com
‘No higher calling than carefully and professionally transporting you’
By Raisina Correspondent
New Delhi, February 1: American airline pilot Leighton Mixon fought fears of passengers by directly addressing the people in his flight a day after the DC plane crash that killed sixty-seven, including the crew.
Mixon’s video of his address to the passenger from the airline cockpit is now viral on social media platforms. He posted on the short video platform TikTok to gain immediate five million views.
As he took to his seat in the flight, Mixon thought to talk to the passengers. Since January 29 when the military helicopter Black Hawk flew into the American airline with sixty passengers over the Potomac River, the US is debating the air travel safety.
US President Donald Trump in his press conference sought to blame the diversity recruitment in the air traffic control for the plane crash. Trump claimed that the people with extraordinary talents are required to do complex jobs such as air traffic control “which is like a chess game with over 50 planes taking off and landing at the same time”.
“You may be fearful about flying, and that’s certainly understandable,” Mixon told his passengers in the American airline. The pilot speaks briefly to the passengers as seen in the video clip.
“But just please know that my first officer and my flight attendants and myself place your safety and the responsibility of carrying you to Miami to your families, your vacations, your meetings at the highest level,” added the pilot in the viral video.
He takes a pause and then delivers his most important message to the passengers. “I have no higher calling than carefully and professionally transporting you today,” Mixon signed off his message to the passengers.
In the aftermath of the DC plane crash, reports said that only air traffic controller was on duty and he was looking after the airline and helicopter traffic. The aviation veteran took to X to state that a large number of helicopters operate out from the Regan National Airport in Washington D.C.
One air traffic controller was allowed to leave his duty earlier than his shift by his supervisor, said reports. Mixon apparently thought to address to fears of flying by directly speaking to the passengers, flying from Jacksonville to Miami.
“I don’t have a single fear about flying in the world, but all it takes is just one event, such as what happens in D.C. to absolutely rattle you,” Mixon told PEOPLE in an interview.
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