Meet the 100-Year-Old Tuskegee Airman Who Proved Racism Wrong and Inspired Generations
When Eugene Richardson joined the Army in 1944, it was segregated, and no Black man had ever served as a pilot in the military. Still, Richardson wanted to be a pilot. He knew that “things would be better in the future. They’re not always going to be as it were at that particular moment,” Richardson […]
Broken Altimeter, Ignored Warnings: Hearings Reveal What Went Wrong in DC Crash that Killed 67
Over three days of sometimes contentious hearings this week, the National Transportation Safety Board interrogated Federal Aviation Administration and Army officials about a list of things that went wrong and contributed to a Black Hawk helicopter and a passenger jet colliding over Washington, D.C., killing 67 people. The biggest revelations: The helicopter’s altimeter gauge was […]