DC Plane Crash Victim’s Text Jolts Husband; ‘Life is Short’
Asra Hussan Image credit Facebook
‘Important to Say You Love Them when They Board Flight’
By Raisina Correspondent
New Delhi, February 1: A text message in the mobile phone moment before the DC place crash shook up Hamaad Raza. He wasn’t aware that his wife was flying.
Asra Hussain texted her husband just before a military helicopter crashed into a passenger airline coming to Regen National Airport from Kansas. “I will land in 20 minutes,” Hussain wrote in the message for her husband.
While Raza was reading the message, he saw the breaking news of an air mishap involving a military aircraft and the passenger airline on January 9. Sixty-seven people died in the mid-air collision.
Hussain was aboard American Airlines Flight 5342, which had taken off from Wichita, Kansas. The Black Hawk helicopter flew into the airline over the Potomac River within the sight of the Regan National Airport, around 9 pm local time.
“She was a very caring person. She will go to extreme ends to look after parents and others,” Raza told WRC in an interview.
Authorities still continue to search for remaining bodies in the frozen river. They have said that there are no survivors.
“She texted that the flight will land in 20 minutes. But my reply to her wasn’t delivered,” Raza told the broadcaster.
He became alarmed while sighting a large number of emergency vehicles speeding past him. “While I was reading the text message, I grew worried seeing so many EMS vehicles speeding. I looked into Twitter and found that there was a plane crash,” Raza told the broadcaster.
He said that his heart sank when he saw that his replies to the message of Hussain were not getting delivered. “I realised that my wife was also in that plane,” Raza told the broadcaster.
Relatives of sixty-four passengers aboard the ill-fated plane rushed to the Regen National Airport after the mid-air crash. The DC plane crash is the worst air accident in decades.
“Life is short,” Raza told the reporter. It’s important to tell ‘you love them when they board flights’, added Raza in his interview to the broadcaster.
Hussain was married to Raza for two years. Her father-in-law, Hashim Raza, told CNN in an interview that Hussain was “a beautiful woman, brilliant, always smiling, artistic, academically brilliant. She was a really good person.”
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