Two fathers and service members have been identified as among the three crew members who died Wednesday when their Black Hawk helicopter collided with a passenger jet over the Potomac River near Reagan Washington National Airport, killing all 67 people aboard both aircraft.
An American Airlines plane with 64 people on board collided with an Army helicopter over Washington, D.C., and crashed into the Potomac River.
President Donald Trump says the Black Hawk helicopter involved in Wednesday’s collision with a commercial plane over the Potomac River was “flying too high, by a lot.” The New York Times reported that the helicopters were flying above 300 feet instead of flying below 200 feet as approved and at least a half-mile off the
The U.S. Coast Guard released images taken Thursday of the wreckage of the helicopter and plane that collided. The photos from the Potomac River show parts of the aircraft sticking out of the water with parked planes visible on land in the background.
The crew of the Army Black Hawk helicopter involved in the deadly collision with a jetliner had thousands of hours of flight experience.
Dozens of people are dead after a regional jet collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter Wednesday night over Washington, D.C., officials said, the nation's first major commercial airline crash since 2009.
Officials have recovered 40 bodies from the wreckage after American Airlines flight collided with Black Hawk helicopter over the Potomac
Transgender pilot Jo Ellis is rumored to have been involved in the American Airlines flight and Black Hawk collision.
Too few controllers have been on the job across the country in general, and in the Baltimore-Washington corridor in particular, in recent years.
An American Airlines regional jet went down in the Potomac River near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
One day before the midair crash in Washington, D.C., another collision was reportedly avoided near Reagan National Airport.