ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — A jet with 60 passengers and four crew members collided with an Army helicopter Wednesday while approaching the Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington. The aircraft plummeted into the Potomac River and multiple people were killed. The crash occurred in some of the most tightly controlled and monitored airspace in the […]

An American Airlines jet with 60 passengers and four crew members aboard collided Wednesday with an Army helicopter while coming in for a landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington and multiple people were killed. Fatal crashes of commercial aircraft in the U.S. have become a rarity. The last was in 2009 near Buffalo, […]

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Air traffic control audio recorded the moments before and after an American Airlines regional passenger jet crashed with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter in a midair collision over Washington on Wednesday night. Audio from LiveATC.net, a respected source for in-flight recording, captured the final communications between the three crew […]

By David Shepardson ARLINGTON, Virginia (Reuters) – The crash of an American Airlines passenger jet and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday highlighted issues around the congested airspace shared by civilian and military aircraft over the U.S. capital. Military helicopters are a common sight in the Washington region […]

(Reuters) – An American Airlines regional passenger jet and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter crashed into the frigid Potomac River after a midair collision near Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday night, officials said. Below are the details of the aircraft involved: UH-60 Black Hawk Helicopter The Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk is one of […]