2 days ago · All 67 people on board the plane and the helicopter were killed in the crash. Hundreds of families are in mourning after an American Airlines regional jet collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk ...

1 day ago · At around 8:15 p.m. American Airlines Flight 5342, with 64 people on board, begins its initial descent into Reagan National. ... About 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) downriver from the crash site, Dean Naujoks, who patrols the Potomac for the Waterkeeper Alliance, finds pages from the flight manual, a piece of the plane’s cabin wall and dozens of ...

Jan 30, 2025 · A plane flies over crosses near the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, in the aftermath of the collision of American Eagle flight 5342 and the helicopter that crashed into the Potomac ...

1 day ago · Investigators at the crash site made headway in their probe of the collision of an American Airlines plane and a U.S. Army Black Hawk. Video showed cranes lifting large pieces of wreckage out of ...

Jan 30, 2025 · The plane, a Bombardier CRJ700, had travelled from Wichita, Kansas. It was operating as American Airlines flight 5342. The US Army helicopter was a Sikorsky H-60 Black Hawk that took off from Fort ...

Jan 30, 2025 · What We Know About the Plane and Helicopter Crash in Washington. Sixty-seven people were killed after an American Airlines jet and a U.S. Army helicopter collided and crashed into the Potomac River.

6 days ago · A midair collision between an Army helicopter and an American Airlines flight from Kansas killed all 67 people aboard the two aircraft. ... Darrell Feller, a retired U.S. Army National Guard pilot, has flown helicopters along the same DC route as the fatal crash. Feller said the deadly collision reminded him of a similar incident he encountered ...

Jan 30, 2025 · An air traffic controller contacts the Black Hawk helicopter, flying under the call sign PAT 2-5, to confirm it sees American Airlines flight 5342, which he refers to as a “CRJ,” based on the ...

Jan 30, 2025 · The last major American Airlines crash occurred in November 2001 near John F. Kennedy International Airport. American Airlines Flight No. 587, an Airbus A300, crashed shortly after takeoff ...

Jan 30, 2025 · The collision Wednesday of the Bombardier CRJ-701 twin-engine plane and UH-60 Blackhawk occurred over the Potomac River and the aircraft fell into the water. In 1982 an Air Florida flight crashed into the Potomac and killed 78. Read more about the deadliest commercial plane crashes in the U.S.