There was a mid-air collision between a commercial airliner and a Sikorsky H-60 Black Hawk helicopter Wednesday night over the Capital Region. “The FAA and NTSB will investigate,” the statement added.
American Airlines CEO Robert Isom released a video in the aftermath of Wednesday night’s crash above the Potomac River near Reagan Washington National Airport, expressing “deep sorrow” over the ongoing tragedy.
Flight recorders have not yet been recovered but the NTSB is "comfortable and confident" that the recorders will be recovered, Inman said. Search and rescue efforts are seen around a wreckage site in the Potomac River from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport,
While driving home, Ari Shulman said a "spray of sparks" in the sky caught his attention as he watched in horror the midair collision unfold.
A PSA Airlines Bombardier CRJ700 regional jet carrying several dozen people collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter. Reagan National Airport has grounded all flights.
An aircraft said to be an American Airlines regional jet went down near Ronald Reagan National Airport on Wednesday night following a crash with a
More than 30 bodies have been recovered, two sources told NBC News, and a frantic search and rescue mission to find crash victims in the icy Potomac river remains underway.
“A PSA Airlines Bombardier CRJ700 regional jet collided in midair with a Sikorsky H-60 helicopter while on approach to Runway 33 at Reagan Washington National Airport around 9 p.m. local time,” the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said in a statement.
By David Shepardson, Trevor Hunnicutt and Brad Brooks WASHINGTON (Reuters) -An American Airlines regional passenger jet and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter crashed into the Potomac River after a midair collision near Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday night,
After an American Airlines flight and a military helicopter collided and crashed into the Potomac river Jan. 29, more than 30 bodies have been recovered, NBC Washington has confirmed.
An American Airlines flight going from Wichita to Washington, D.C., went down in the Potomac River after colliding with a military Black Hawk helicopter on Wednesday. It comes just one year after Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport started offering nonstop flights to Washington.