The traveler is reminiscent of “nervousness” at Reagan Airport with news of flight accident (exclusive)

• Jada Alcindor was 10 minutes from boarding a flight from Reagan National Airport when flights grounded
• In less than an hour she would learn the heartbreaking reason for the delay
• Alcindor is reminiscent of the feeling of concern over the entire airport in conversation with people

Jada Alcinor spends many days a year traveling. Wednesday 29 January felt like some other travel day.

“I actually came from a site visit in Reno, Nevada. And I went from Reno to Phoenix and then I would go from Phoenix to DC and then DC to Albany. I travel a lot for my job as a conference coordinator,” She tells people.

Alcindor arrived at Reagan National Airport around 19:46, prepared for a two -hour layover before joining flight. She and her boss decided to get a bit while they were waiting.

“We eaten dinner. We were waiting to board our aircraft. It said it was supposed to board 10 minutes. Suddenly you hear on the radio, ‘There is an aircraft. We just kept hearing it over and over , but there was no explanation. ”

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Travelers tried to look up the cause of the delay, but information had not yet been published. Alcindor texted his hubby to let him know what was happening.

“Everyone just started pulling out their phones and finding it up but there was nothing online yet. At 9:23 o’clock, when I texted my hubby and where,” all flights are grounded. “I didn’t know until 9:27 that it was actually a crash that had happened.”

In the following moment, Alcindor would see other people’s expressions change when they saw the news themselves.

“It was a feeling of nervousness. Some people were just very unconscious because I literally got a woman to go to me and be like,” I feel like I was missing something “after they first said that everything was grounded. Everyone was just Worried that we were all ready to get on our flights and go home, ”she shares.

“When people became aware of the question, everyone is quite nervous. No one is freaking out but everyone is like, calmly nervous. We didn’t know the effects or what moment in history it would be.”

What would happen next was not immediately clear to most travelers. Alcindor says that she and her boss were told that they could be rebooked on another flight in the morning.

“We had to wait in a row, but then we had to find a hotel in DC, which is hard to start with. Many people were stuck. I know a gentleman that was in front of us planned to stay at the airport but about 2 o’clock they canceled all flights. ”

“To begin with, we were like” we will just wait for it. We will hopefully be able to get on the aircraft to leave. “The aircraft women were like,” we don’t think anyone will go out tonight. ”

She continues, “in the end, we could not fly out. They rebooked on Thursday morning at 10 o’clock but then the flights were canceled around 02:00 on Thursday, and they had no flights back to Albany who would have entered a decent time.

Outside the airport, there was an eerie feeling of stillness for what would otherwise be a lively travel shop.

“When we went it was like a ghost town. Our Uber driver said it was a strange feeling to be able to pull in and leave the airport so easily when it is usually full around 21.00,” says Alcindor.

“You could see all the lamps where we drove to. It was clear that it is a massive event. About 30 minutes later you could see that there were many emergency vehicles flying by.”

The whole experience scrubbed for the frequent flyer, which could not help but think about the directly affected.

“Just hearing that it was a commercial plane and a military vehicle was quite worrying. It was mentally a lot because we first began to believe it could have been us,” she says. “God prohibits that we had come in an hour later or that the Black Hawk flight had taken an hour earlier.”

“My second thought was:“ Thankfully, it’s not us. “I really began to think of the people waiting for people.

“It was just so close to time,” she adds. “An hour is not long in your life.”

Alcindor has also found comfort in sharing her experience at Tiktok, where she has met “an overwhelming amount of thoughts and prayers.”

But she says, “I really want to expand my prayers and thoughts to everyone who lost people. So many people were affected.”