A regional American Airlines passenger jet and a Black Hawk military helicopter collided over Washington, D.C., on Wednesday night in the nation's first major commercial airline crash since 2009. There are confirmed fatalities from the collision,
Aviation experts have warned for years about near collisions at airports around the US, citing air traffic control shortages and airspace congestion.
Grainy video footage taken in the dark of night, seemingly by an airport CCTV camera, appears to capture the moment American Airlines Flight 5342 was in collision with a U.S.
A jet with 60 passengers and four crew members collided with an Army helicopter while approaching Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington, D.C., sending the two aircraft plummeting into the Potomac River. Everyone on board the two aircraft is feared dead, officials said Thursday.
A PSA Airlines Bombardier CRJ700 regional jet collided with a Black Hawk helicopter while on approach at Reagan Washington National Airport at about 9 p.m. Wednesday.
D.C. police confirmed a crash had taken place over the Potomac and that search and rescue operations were taking place in the river. Donald Trump later weighed in.
"Just the horror that the parents are going through. It just that blows me away. It makes me so sad for the families," said Joanne Kispert, 74, whose father died in the 2001 crash of American Airlines Flight 587 in New York in 2001.
Airlines have issued travel waivers to help passengers whose flights into and out of Washington, D.C., were affected following a deadly midair collision on Wednesday.
President Donald Trump questioned the Army helicopter in the fatal crash for flying at the same height at an American Airlines plane.
While landing at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday shortly before 9 p.m., American Airlines Flight 5342 collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter and crashed into the icy Potomac River.
President Donald Trump Thursday blamed the deadly crash of American Airlines Flight 5342 on former President Joe Biden and supposed Democratic diversity, equality and inclusion policies. Without providing any evidence,