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Rachel Leingang

‘I became collateral damage’: the trans pilot falsely targeted over Washington DC crash

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Jo Ellis at home in Richmond, Virginia. Photograph: Carlos Bernate/The Guardian

Jo Ellis is alive.

It was a non-controversial, irrefutable fact – until she was accused of piloting the military helicopter that collided with a commercial airplane in Washington DC on 29 January, killing all involved.

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