ARLINGTON, Va. (DC News Now) — A Virginia woman who was waiting for her connecting flight at Reagan National Airport (DCA) recounted the moment she found out about the deadly plane crash Wednesday night.
Mary Dewing said she had just gotten off her plane and was sitting at her gate to wait for her connecting flight when an American Airlines employee began talking to all the gate agents.
“Each person, their face just dropped. Then somebody said ‘crash, crash, crash, crash, code three,'” she recalled. “Suddenly there probably, I think I counted six firetrucks, two or three ambulances, police. And so you could see them all going out.”
Dewing said everyone had assumed that a plane had landed and went off the runway.
“We had no idea,” she said.
She said restaurants and bars turned on the news and people were crying and were horrified as more information started to come out.
“It’s shocking. They were so close to landing … they were so close. They were almost here,” Dewing said.
She said it was reassuring to see people begin to try and help each other.
“It always makes you have a little bit more faith in humanity when everyone kind of starts trying to come together,” Dewing said.
