A die-hard Kansas Metropolis Chiefs fan on the doomed American Airways flight instructed his mom he’d be house in time to look at his workforce compete within the Tremendous Bowl — however by no means made it again after the airplane collided with a US army helicopter, killing everybody onboard.
Dustin Miller, 43, was headed to Rochester, New York for work when he boarded the DC-bound flight in Wichita, Kansas on Jan. 29 and instructed his mom he couldn’t wait to get again for the Tremendous Bowl as she dropped him on the airport.
“He stated he wished to you’ll want to make it again house in time to look at the Chiefs play within the Tremendous Bowl,” Miller’s pal Audra Rogers wrote in a GoFundMe for the IT skilled.
“He even bought a airplane ticket for his brother Jon to fly in to Kansas from Arizona so they may all watch the sport at house with their mother and pop,” Rogers added.
And simply earlier than the airplane took off Miller texted his boss and known as a pal, telling them how enjoyable the flight felt because it was the final airplane of the day and the crew had been joking round, and that it was stuffed with American and Russian determine skaters.
However that was the final anybody would ever hear from him.
After information of the crash reached them, his household and mates adopted each minute of the search and rescue operations holding out hope he would name to say he was okay — however finally they discovered there have been no survivors, and that they’d misplaced their beloved pal, brother, and son.
“I communicate for my household once I say Dustin was the funniest man within the room, he was additionally probably the most beneficiant and loving. He had a manner of constructing individuals really feel at house in his presence,” his sister Kristen Miller-Zahn wrote on the GoFundMe.
“He wasn’t only a brother or a son, he was additionally every of our greatest pal. All of us had a singular and particular bond with him. He would do something for the individuals he liked, and for individuals he didn’t even know so effectively,” she added.
However whereas Miller is not with them, the household gained’t let the loss maintain them from cheering on the Chiefs once they play the Philadelphia Eagles on the Tremendous Bowl in New Orleans Sunday — they’ll be watching it in his honor.
“He was a HUGE Chiefs fan so he would need us to look at the Tremendous Bowl sport and root for the Chiefs. He was wanting ahead to that sport,” his sister stated.
“He liked us, he would need us all to like one another and concentrate on what’s necessary, household.”
For the reason that airplane went down per week in the past, the our bodies of all 67 victims have been recovered.
A lot of the airplane items have been pulled from the Potomac River, and crews at the moment are at work pulling the chopper from the frigid waters the place the craft splashed down after the collision.
The airplane’s black field revealed that it was touring at an acceptable 325 ft when the collision occurred, whereas the chopper was flying too excessive at 300 ft, based on information from air site visitors management radar.
Officers have stated till the chopper is recovered they gained’t have the ability to additional analyze the circumstances that led as much as the crash.
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