Who was the Argentine who died with his 13 -year -old son

Luciano Aparicioa counter formed in the UBA and member of an energy company based in the United States, He was the Argentine who was traveling on the plane that was crashed by a helicopter in Washington. He died with his son Franco, 13 and born in Chile, whom he had accompanied a skating competition. His wife waited for them at the airport when the tragedy occurred.

Aparicio had received a accountant at the University of Buenos Aires and then continued his studies in the United States. At the moment, He was vice president of an energy company Electric headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, very close to the airport where the tragedy occurred. He had lived several years in Chile.

His son practiced artistic skating And, beyond attending the American school, he was a student of the Argentine school, an institution on the outskirts of Washington where children of Argentines attend on Saturday mornings to continue studying the country’s curriculum and being in contact with his community.

The mother and wife, also Argentina, was waiting at Ronald Reagan airport to land the flight where her relatives arrived when shortly before 9 o’clock Wednesday night, Washington time, the accident occurred and everything became desperation. The American Airlines authorities had arrived there that were in contact with them.

Little by little they were giving information to relatives who were in the place, who feared the worst. In the morning they had been told that there were no hope, but the official list of deaths spread later.

Luciano and his son Franco were among the 64 people traveling on the plane of the American Airlines company that collided with the military helicopter when he approached the Ronald Reagan Eropuerto.

In relation to the possible causes of the fatal shock, a preliminary report of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) points out that the staffing dedicated to air control “was not normal for the time of day and the volume of traffic. ”

American media who had access to that report say that the scarce number of workers He made a person take care of two tasks at the same time: air control of both airplane traffic and helicopters that fly over the capital of the United States.

However, President Donald Trump added another point of view by putting the focus on the helicopter flew too high.

“The Blackhawk helicopter flew too high. It was well above the 200 feet limit. That is not really too complicated to understand, right?” Trump said in his Truth social network.