A young woman who sent her husband a haunting final text shortly before dying in the Washington DC plane crash has been identified. Her shaken husband of two years Hamza Raza, 25, was filmed explaining how he'd texted a few replies but that they'd never been received. Four crew members on the plane also died, alongside three service personnel on the chopper.
The rest of my texts didn't get delivered and that's when I realized that something might be up,' a distraught Hamaad said at the airport. Raza's father, Dr Hashim Raza, identified him on social media, writing: 'This my 25 yo old son who lost his beautiful wife. We are going to DC to be with him. Hug your family. We are devastated. Our Faith in God is unshakable. Hamaad, an accountant at Ernst and Young, and Asra both went to Indiana University, according to their social media accounts. He said his wife had gone to Wichita for work but that she'd never felt comfortable flying.
Hamaad Raza, 25, left was one of the terrified relatives who were awaiting at the DC airport for passengers of the doomed AA Flight. His wife of just two years Asra Hussain, 26, right was one of the 66 people killed. They are pictured in their wedding day in Asra had texted him letting him know they were scheduled to land in 20 minutes before the plane crash. Hamaad said his wife had gone to Wichita for work but that she'd never felt comfortable flying. Asra was a University of Indiana Bloomington graduate and married her husband two years ago.
Hamaad and a family member were pacing anxiously through Terminal 2 at Reagan Airport Wednesday night, waiting for any news. The WUSA reporter has described his conversation with Raza as 'one of the most heartbreaking interviews of my professional career. The collision happened at around 9 p. A few minutes before the jet was to land, air traffic controllers asked American Airlines Flight if it could do so on a shorter runway, and the pilots agreed. Controllers cleared the jet to land and flight tracking sites showed the plane adjust its approach to the new runway.
Less than 30 seconds before the crash, an air traffic controller asked a helicopter if it had the arriving plane in sight.
