A military helicopter was flying above the maximum altitude for its route when it collided with a passenger plane near ...
The Army pilots were juggling dark skies, low altitude, a busy airspace and a cockpit without certain traffic detectors before the helicopter’s midair crash with a regional passenger jet.
Every person who died in the aircraft collision last week at Reagan National airport has been recovered as of Tuesday.
Data retrieved by the National Transportation Safety Board confirmed the Army Black Hawk helicopter that crashed into a passenger plane near D.C. was flying too high.
Data from air traffic control radar showed the military chopper was flying at 300 feet on the air traffic control display at ...
The news came Tuesday as crews worked to try to recover the cockpit and other parts of the jetliner from the Potomac River.
Pilots who agree initiate a swooping turn that on final approach brings them north west and low across the river — the path ...
Authorities recovered all of the 67 victims from the Potomac River less than a week after an American Airlines flight collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter in the Washington, D.C., area.
Sixty passengers and four crew were on the American Airlines flight, including figure skaters returning from the 2025 U.S.
Hundreds of families are in mourning after an American Airlines regional jet collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter on Wednesday night, with both aircraft plunging into the Potomac River near ...
Crashes of Army helicopters and fatalities are at the highest rates in over a decade. Veterans say it’s a result of a deadly ...