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Two Brooklyn Natives, One Resident Among Victims in D.C. Midair Collision

The Wednesday collision between an airplane and an Army helicopter claimed 67 lives, making it one of the deadliest air-carrier crashes in the United States in decades.
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The Coast Guard, local, state and federal agencies respond to an aircraft collision in Washington D.C., on Jan. 30, 2025. Coast Guard Sector Maryland - National Capital Region command center watchstanders received a report of a helicopter and a commercial passenger aircraft collision Wednesday evening in vicinity of the Ronald Reagan Airport.

There were two Brooklyn natives and one Kings County resident that died in the midair plane collision in Washington D.C. on Wednesday, according to New York City Mayor Eric Adams and local reports.

Two crew members on American Eagle Flight 5342, which crashed with an Army helicopter over the Patomac River on Jan. 29, were from Brooklyn, the mayor said on X. The pilot was identified as Jonathan Campos and a flight attendant has been identified as Danasia Brown Elder.

"Captain Jonathan Campos grew up in Gravesend and graduated from @NYCSchools where he dreamed of becoming a pilot. Flight attendant and mother of two, Danasia Brown Elder was raised in Coney Island. My prayers go out to both of their families," the mayor posted on X on Sunday.

Melissa Jane Nicandri, a Brooklyn Heights resident, also died in the crash, according to the mayor. She was returning home from a work trip in Kansas and was connecting through Reagan on the plane that went down in the Potomac River, her mother, Stacie Nicandri, told the Gothamist.

Nicandri worked for Moody’s Investors Service in Manhattan, rating colleges and universities, the news site said.

 

 

 

 

 




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