Kansas officials 'pushing for answers' after deadly DC plane crash

Diario As

31/1/2025

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00:00I have been in constant contact with American Airlines and they do tell us that they do

00:15not provide that manifest.

00:18And so what we do know is that last night several council members including the vice

00:23mayor and I along with the city manager and airport director were at the airport and one

00:30family from this city was there.

00:34So I will not confirm the individual's name but I can tell you one family did show up

00:40to the airport but no additional families have shown up at the airport.

00:46I have been asking for the list of names as I know that our federal partners, our state

00:50partners have all been asking for that and we are patiently waiting.

00:55I believe it's respectful that families get contacted first.

01:00Next of kin should be contacted by authorities and I want that process to follow through

01:07that way.

01:08First, I want to once again express my deepest condolences.

01:13They're waiting for all the families to be notified and there are some folks who are

01:18on that plane who are from overseas and so that's partially the reason for the delay

01:25is really needing to get in touch with those families over there.

01:31But they expected that we'd likely have the manifest sometime tomorrow afternoon.

01:38We know that there are four people from overseas that had not been notified.

01:43We don't know how many actually have.

01:46But you can trust that we're pushing them for answers.

01:50These families need answers to what happened here and so as fast as we can get them to

01:58give us those answers, we'll get them out and we'll get them to the people.

02:02American Airlines is responsible for notifying the families of the folks who perished in

02:11this plane crash.

02:14They would like it very much if you think you might know somebody, if you think a friend

02:20of yours, a family member or someone else was on that plane, please contact American

02:26Airlines and let me give you their number.

02:30It is 1-800-679-8215.

02:42I believe that this is less than 24 hours since a tragic event happened in Washington,

02:48D.C. involving members of Wichita, Kansas, America and the world and I think that right

02:54now what we need most is to comfort the families who right now still don't know all the answers

03:00and I think that that should be priority number one.

03:03So I ask all of us to continue praying for the families affected, for the first responders

03:09who are still there gathering information, helping with the recovery efforts and truly

03:15pray for the entire greater Wichita community, Kansas and America.

03:21We were very proud to have been chosen to host the championships and I believe as a

03:26community we were so proud to see these high-level athletes, their families, their friends, fans

03:33coming to our community and sharing their skills and talents so that the whole world

03:37could see and to end it with this type of tragedy just truly breaks my heart.

03:44I said this this morning.

03:46My heart is truly heavy because this community had a celebration just last week and this

03:58is what is going to be part of that story now.

04:03The first part of your question was frequency of service is daily service so it's one flight

04:09a day that we have and it was departing about 5 30 and getting in about 9 p.m. local time

04:17in DC.

04:19That is our only scheduled flight departure for that route.

04:23The flight for this evening was canceled and as far as we have seen so far the flight for

04:31tomorrow is scheduled so we should see service return but ideally everybody needs to check

04:38with American Airlines if that's who you're flying with.

04:44Our community had a community-wide prayer at noon.

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