A transgender Black Hawk pilot is wrongly mentioned as one of the three American army personnel who flew the helicopter that collided with an airplane in Washington DC.
Jo Ellis, 34, was incorrectly identified on Thursday as the female co-pilot of the doomed chopper.
A shocked sounding Ellis grabbed the phone when he was called by DailyMail.com on Friday morning and confirmed that she was not killed.
Ellis added: “I live very much.”
She said that the false rumors were 'shocked', with the Pentagon told her that she was preparing a statement in an attempt to disprove the online lies.
Ellis, who previously worked for CNN star Michael Smerconish, said that De Smet is 'disrespectful for the families' of the 67 people who were killed in the disaster of Wednesday evening.
On Friday it was the co-pilot of the US Army Black Hawk Sikorsky UH-60 was a female military member of a training sort.
She is not identified.
Chief Warrant Officer Andrew Eaves and Ryan O'hara from Georgia were the other two service staff on board.
Transgender Service Woman Jo Ellis is falsely mentioned as the co-pilot of the US Army Black Hawk helicopter who collapsed in a passenger plane on Wednesday evening and killed 67
Chief Warrant Officer 2, Andrew Eaves and Paul O'hara from Georgia were both on board the crashed Black Hawk and died in the explosion. A third, female co-pilot is not mentioned
The helicopter would have flown at a higher than normal height when he collided with the American Eagle Flight 5342 when it came to the country at Reagan National Airport in Washington DC shortly before 9 p.m. et Wednesday evening.
Gruesome video images showed that the two planes collided in a fireball before they dived into the icy Potomac river just east of Reagan's runways.
The three soldiers on board the Black Hawk were all killed, just like the 60 passengers and four crew on board the Bombardier CRJ-700 plane.
Researchers still work to determine what the crash has caused, with recovery efforts that are Friday, while 14 bodies stay in the water.
On Thursday evening it was an air traffic controller at Reagan Airport was sent home early, which means that the person was in charge of both aircraft and helicopter traffic.
Images of the black hawk that collapsed in the side of the plane also speculated the chopper the culprit.
Robert Isoms, CEO of American Airlines from American Eagle, wondered why the chopper had crossed the path of the plane.
President Trump suggested that the policy of diversity, equity and inclusion (dei) was to blame, with some online 'trim senes' who then held Jo Ellis.
A blog written by Ellis said that she had spent her childhood for the most part of her education, and had struggled with Gerdylysmorphia since the age of five.
Ellis spent years in the army and says she knew she was from a young age, but only recently started to live a woman
She recently wrote a soul -string blog about life as a trans -service man by CNN star Michael Smerconish -her former employer
This is the moment when the Black Hawk helicopter collided on Wednesday evening with the American Eagle Bombardier CRJ-7000, where all 67 was killed on board
Recovery efforts take place on Friday morning, with 14 bodies that are not yet justified
She joined the army in 2009 as a 15G helicopter mechanic in the Virginia National Guard and two years later went into the use of Iraq with Operation New Dawn.
After earning the air medal for her courage in the middle, she also served in the following years in Guatemala and Kuwait.
While she said she continued to work Gerdylysmorphia by trying to become 'more successful and more masculine', she married, adopted a dog and stopped a stepdaughter, like 'all the things I thought a good man should do'.
Ellis wrote that she was accepted in 2020 'in the Flight Training Program of the Army Officer. I completed Warrant Officer Candidate School, Sere School (Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape), and the UH60 Black Hawk Helicopter Course. '
She said that the pandemic and the hardships of the flight school led her to confront her gender dysphoria and decide, with the support of her husband, to switch.
She said when she told her military commanders in 2023 that she was being supported immediately.
The day before the tragic collision about Reagan International Airport, Ellis had given an interview with Sirius XM DJ and CNN -Gastheer Michael Smerconish, whose Smerconish.com -website she once succeeded.
Ellis spoke about her pride of serving 15 years in the army and struggled with Gennesdiesmorphia before he came out.
She said in the interview that she is currently serving in the National Guard as a Blackhawk helicopter pilot, as well as working on a private sector.