US EditionAmerican Airlines plane collides midair with military helicopter, no expected survivors
- An American Airlines regional jet carrying 64 passengers collided midair with a military Blackhawk helicopter near Washington, D.C.
- The crash caused all flights to be halted at Reagan National Airport as helicopters searched for survivors.
- The incident is a major test for new Trump administration leaders, including the Defense and Transportation Secretaries.
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By Andy Rose, Pete Muntean and Oren Liebermann, CNN As rescue crews braved cold water and driving rain to try to pull more debris from American Airlines Flight 5342 and an Army Black Hawk helicopter from the Potomac River, investigators were still trying to determine the cause of the collision, with questions still raised about the path of at least one of the two aircraft. The helicopter was on a training mission when it collided with a commerci…
U.S. authorities believe that no one survived the mid-flight collision on Wednesday night between a commercial plane carrying 64 people and an Army helicopter carrying three U.S. military personnel near Washington, D.C. Both aircraft crashed into the Potomac River near Reagan National Airport, and teams searching the icy waters had removed 27 bodies from the plane and one from the helicopter, authorities reported at a press conference Thursday m…
A commercial airliner and a military helicopter collided in Washington, DC last night. New footage shows the two colliding in mid-air as the helicopter descended for landing.
Black Hawk that struck American flight 5342 was on routine training flight: officials
The Army helicopter that crashed into an American Airlines plane on Wednesday night above Washington, D.C., was on a routine training flight, officials said Thursday. “It was a fairly experienced crew that was doing a required annual night evaluation,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said in a social media video. “It was an annual proficiency training flight.” The 12th Aviation Battalion, which was flying the helicopter, was placed on a 48-hour p…
US President Donald Trump confirmed on Thursday that no one survived the crash of a passenger plane in Washington, when it collided with a military helicopter.
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State TimesEveryone aboard American Airlines jet that collided with Army helicopter feared dead
Everyone aboard an American Airlines jet carrying 60 passengers and four crew members that collided with an Army helicopter was feared dead in what was likely to be the worst U.S. aviation disaster in almost a quarter century, officials said Thursday. MORE..
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