An American Airlines plane carrying 60 passengers and four crew members collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter outside Reagan National Airport near Washington, D.C. Wednesday evening. Three soldiers were onboard the helicopter and a massive search and rescue operation is now unfolding in the Potomac River.
The Black Hawk is a US Army workhorse helicopter. It has been flying for decades. One tragically collided with a passenger jet this week.
Authorities are investigating a midair collision an American Airlines regional jet and a military helicopter near Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C.
The Army Black Hawk helicopter that collided with an American Airlines commuter plane near Reagan Washington National Airport in Virginia Wednesday was on a “training flight” when it crashed into the Potomac River, according to the military service branch.
An American Airlines jet collided midair with a military helicopter near Reagan National Airport. Four crew and 60 passengers were on board the plane.
The flight appeared to collide with a helicopter just before it was scheduled to land. This is a developing story and will be updated.
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,
The Post can reveal that grave lapses and miscommunications in one of the most crowded and complex patches of sky in the US are likely to blame.
The crew of the Army Black Hawk helicopter involved in the deadly collision with a jetliner had thousands of hours of flight experience.
Ryan O’Hara, a father-of-one, was one of the three soldiers aboard the military helicopter, according to reports