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American Airways pilot affords significant message to passengers after DC airplane crash

Editorial Board Published February 4, 2025
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A flight passenger has gone viral on social media after sharing a video of an American Airways pilot’s considerate announcement final week aboard flight AA1044 from Jacksonville to Miami.

The video has garnered greater than 6.5 million views on TikTok with 1000’s of customers commenting concerning the pilot’s message to the passengers.

The announcement got here lower than 24 hours after the tragic airplane crash over the Potomac in Washington, D.C., took the lives of 67 folks.

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“[You] may be fearful about flying, and that’s certainly understandable, but just please know that my first officer and our flight attendants and myself place your safety and the responsibility of carrying you to Miami, to your families, your vacations, your gates, at the highest level,” the pilot will be heard saying within the video.

“I have no higher calling than carefully, professionally transporting you today, so with that, relax and enjoy the beautiful evening that we get to fly in. We’ll begin shortly [and] welcome aboard.”

“I just want to [say] how thankful I am for him and his words in such a time as this. After such a tragic event, [and] I am someone who doesn’t have an anxious bone in my body, but I found myself facing so much anxiety and so much worry going into my trip (which was the following day),” stated Mixon, who recorded the footage.

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As a fellow flight attendant, Mixon was serious about seeing how the pilot would deal with this delicate scenario and alleviate any nerves of these on board, he stated.

“It’s every pilot’s job to inform and take control, but his kindness and his empathy far surpass his job description.”

— Leighton Mixon

“I honestly couldn’t help but wonder how the crew would be and how their demeanors would be. How will they act? What will they say? That’s actually initially why I pulled my phone out to record, because I knew I wanted to hear what he was going to say,” Mixon added.

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“And with one PA, it’s like he just invited calm into the room. It felt like he was speaking literally to me, and then I looked up and quickly realized how badly every single person on the flight needed to hear what he had said.”

Mixon stated he seen the silence on the airplane, mentioning that this can be very uncommon to see folks listening so intently to a pilot’s bulletins.

The American Airways pilot advised his passengers that his responsibility was to get them to their vacation spot safely and that he has “no higher calling than carefully, professionally transporting” them to their location. (iStock)

“It’s every pilot’s job to inform and take control, but his kindness and his empathy far surpass his job description,” Mixon added. “It was such a delicate but necessary task.”

Social media customers appeared to have the identical response to the pilot’s loudspeaker tackle.

“That is so kind of him knowing his heart is probably heavier than it’s ever been,” one person on TikTok posted.

“It’s like he felt the fear…I’m glad he spoke up about it,” one other person commented.

“As an airline employee you train and train and train for every possible worst-case scenario, and hope and pray to God it never happens.”

— Leighton Mixon

“His voice sounds like it broke when he said he had no higher calling. His heart is so so heavy,” one Tiktok person wrote

“The way I’d want to hug him at the end of the flight. I can only imagine it’s so devastating for their community too,” one other particular person shared.

“All of our pilots did that yesterday…my pilot took the extra time to brief us yesterday to make sure we were all okay to work and made a beautiful announcement to the passengers once they were on,” wrote one other.

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Mixon stated that his personal place as a flight attendant additionally performed a job in why the announcement felt so particular and “necessary.”

“As an airline employee you train and train and train for every possible worst-case scenario, and hope and pray to God it never happens,” he stated.

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“You can be doing everything right, and it still be totally out of your control,” Mixon added. “That scares me but also brings me peace. We are not in control.”

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