One of President Joe Biden’s top advisers, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice, has announced that she will leave the White House effective at the end of May.

The White House confirmed on Monday that Rice, who has been serving the Biden administration as a domestic policy adviser, will exit that position just before the Memorial Day holiday weekend on May 26.

Rice has served in the Biden White House for more than two years in that capacity, and according to White House Chief of Staff Jeff Zients, has been instrumental in ensuring that the most important issues in Biden’s domestic agenda have made it from the drawing board to Congress and then back to the president’s desk for his final signature.

As NBC reported, Rice has been in that significant role as Biden has signed a number of actions — both legislative and executive — on key Democratic issues ranging from health care and gun safety to police reform and student loans.

Rice, according to Zients, has taken Biden’s Domestic Policy Council “to new heights.”

“It is extraordinary when you think about what she’s done in terms of public service across her career, capped off by being the first person ever to be the national security adviser and domestic policy adviser. It really speaks a lot to her leadership and her range,” Zients added.

Biden’s chief economic adviser Brian Deese also praised Rice’s tenure in the role but noted that the White House would likely shift priorities going into the 2024 presidential election cycle.

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“Susan was there during this two-year period where there was just an incredible and historic burst of policymaking, and the next year and a half is going to be different. It’s going to call for a different approach to policy,” Deese explained, adding, “The role and the requirements for the role are going to be different, and I think they’ll take that into consideration.”

NBC cited another White House source who said the search for Rice’s replacement would not be limited to those already working within the Biden White House.

Video of an American Airlines flight headed to Phoenix, Arizona, from Columbus, Ohio, bursting into flames in mid-air after a flock of geese collided with it has been released.

The plane, a Boeing 737-800, took off at 7:43 a.m. on Sunday but was forced to make an emergency landing back at John Glenn Columbus International Airport at 8:22 a.m. Although initial reports stated an engine had caught fire, John Glenn Columbus International Airport corrected the report later, writing that “the aircraft experienced mechanical issues, not an engine fire.”

Two passengers, Marni Kallestad and Ryan Brink, recorded the view from the plane as it caught fire, The Daily Mail reported.

Pilots of an American Airlines flight turned the plane around shortly after it took off from the airport in Columbus, Ohio, after an apparent bird strike caused the engine to catch fire pic.twitter.com/ih45zfGFq1

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One witness said the collision with the geese caused the plane to emit “wonky, pulsing noises.”

“The flight landed normally and taxied safely to the gate under its own power,” American Airlines reported. “The aircraft was taken out of service for maintenance and our team is working to get customers back on their way to Phoenix.”

“Genuinely, this is the first time in my life that I was ready to die,” Matthew Danek, a passenger on the plane who saw the plane catch fire, told WBNS. “There were extreme rumbling vibrations. The noise was deafening.”

Danek said the fire lasted roughly three minutes while other passengers were panicked, albeit silent.

“Immediately the mood changed,” he continued. “Like everyone stopped talking. We all got quiet. We all kind of did that look around like ‘You hearing this? You seeing this? We in this right now.’”

“All the crew was absolutely amazing. The pilot was even, I dare say, funny during it. He had a good sense of humor. His poise was astounding,” Danek recalled.

“This is something that airline crews train over and over again, under varying conditions, bad weather, daylight, nighttime,” aviation safety expert Shawn Pruchnicki told WBNS. “So regardless of why the engine failed, it’s something that as a former airline pilot, it’s something that we are very, very well trained to handle.”

Last week, an Airbus A321 plane experienced a fire due to mechanical failure just before takeoff from Charlotte Douglas Airport in North Carolina. The plane was headed to Dallas Fort Worth International Airport. Passengers disembarked safely, and the aircraft was decommissioned, according to Simple Flying.

American Airlines A321 experiences an engine fire moments before takeoff from Charlotte Douglas Airport. The crew successfully extinguished the fire and all passengers disembarked safely.

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