Fire and health personnel are responding to a helicopter crash off Airport Road near Brethren Village in Manheim Township. Lancaster County-Wide Communications operators received reports soon after 3: 15 p. m EDT. that a small plane had crashed near a parking lot at Brethren Village. The fall ignited burns involving the aircraft and multiple vehicles.
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Emergency personnel on the field reported that a total of five people were injured in the affair. Dispatchers were unable to post on the amount of the injury.
Brian Pipkin, a Lititz citizen who was visiting Brethren Village at the time of the collision, said he was driving on Airport path when he saw the helicopter flying small.
” I don’t understand what played into it but it veered left”, Pipkin said. ” It only nosedived”.
Pipkin said he don’t tell if the aircraft struck a parking lot at Brethren Village or a building. He called 911.
Pipkin said he saw two persons laying in the grass outside, covered in black marks. He wasn’t sure if they were ejected from the airplane or not.
Videos of the image have been shared on social media:
Splitting: Airplane accidents in Manheim Township, Pennsylvania photograph. twitter.com/3GopIgy5b0— Breaking911 ( @Breaking911 ) March 9, 2025
UPDATE: The FAA says five persons were on board the plane, which went down in Manheim Township, PA. The aircraft is apparently a Beechcraft Bonanza. Mysterious problem of inhabitants. photograph. twitter.com/o4pnvfV6N4— Breaking911 ( @Breaking911 ) March 9, 2025
This tragedy comes less than a fortnight after a Delta Airlines plane crash-landed at a Toronto aircraft, causing the aircraft to totally roll back down on the snowy airport.
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Naturally, the mainstream media shamelessly attempted to tie the crash to President Trump, Elon Musk, and the Department of Government Efficiency ( DOGE ).  ,
NBC’s Tom Costello reported on the collision by stating,” This is going to still once raise the issue about FAA personnel, air traffic control staffing”, suggesting a link between the fall and staffing issues at the FAA. Costello went on to question whether air traffic control personnel problems in the U. S. had anything to do with an event in Canada.
” And but, as you also know, the FAA has been complaining for times that they are understaffed in important employment opportunities, especially air traffic control. I was having a talk with someone today about whether air traffic control in America is being affected by the staff reductions. So much, not to their awareness”.
In the weeks following the devastating midair collision at Reagan National Airport in January, the Federal Aviation Administration’s ( FAA ) hiring practices have come under intense scrutiny. The dreadful accident, involving an American Airlines plane and a U. S. Army plane, claimed all 67 life on board. At PJ Media, we have exhaustively covered the FAA’s personnel crisis—driven by La initiatives under Obama and Biden that valued variety quotas over significance, leading to the rejection of very qualified light applicants.
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Current and former air traffic control whistleblowers warn that the FAA’s obsession with Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion ( DEI ) has led to a decline in the recruitment of competent personnel, likely contributing to the Reagan National disaster. These DEI-driven getting procedures took hold under Obama, were halted during Trump’s presidency, and were reinstated under Biden—once once prioritizing variety over skills.
Costello, but, ignored all of this. Instead, he excessively tried to wire the fall on Trump’s efforts to reduce the federal workforce—even though the accident occurred in Canadian aircraft, under American air traffic control, and had nothing to do with the FAA, overworked or not.
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