‘I’m praying to God’, says panic-stricken husband as he reveals wife’s last text from doomed American Airlines plane A PANIC-stricken husband whose wife was onboard the doomed American Airlines jet has revealed the last text she sent him moments before the deadly crash.
The tragedy happened on Wednesday night when American Eagle Flight 5342 from Kansas was approaching Runway 33 at Ronald Reagan International Airport when it crashed with a US Army Black Hawk helicopter.
A distressed husband, whose 26-year-old wife was on the plane said his last contact with his wife was just a few minutes before the crash.
Hamaad Raza told WUSA from near Reagan National Airport: "She texted me that they were landing in 20 minutes.".
Horror CCTV from the Kennedy Center showed the moment the aircraft burst into flames after crashing in the air.
