3 days ago · On January 29, 2025, PSA Airlines Flight 5342 [under discussion] (operated as American Eagle Flight 5342), [a] [6] [7] a Bombardier CRJ700 airliner, collided mid-air with a Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter of the United States Army over the Potomac River a half-mile (0.8 km) from the approach end of runway 33 of Ronald Reagan Washington ...

3 days ago · Yesterday’s tragic mid-air collision between an American Eagle Bombardier CRJ-700 regional jetliner and a U.S. Army H-60 Black Hawk helicopter close to Reagan National Airport, near Washington, D.C., has led to many questions about the role played by the Traffic Collision Avoidance System, or TCAS. While you can read our report of the incident here, it should be restated that, at this early ...

3 days ago · On Wednesday evening, 60 passengers boarded a commercial flight in Wichita, Kan. Three hours later, they and the crew were all feared dead, in the deadliest U.S. air crash since November 2001. The ...

3 days ago · Female soldier inside doomed Black Hawk during DC crash identified This story has been shared 20,884 times. 20,884 American Airlines pilot may have attempted last-minute move to avoid collision: NTSB

3 days ago · As the investigation begins into the cause of the mid-air crash between an American Airlines regional passenger jet and a U.S. army Black Hawk helicopter, questions have been raised about the role ...

Deadly mid-air collision renews urgent questions about US air safety, near-misses Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., in a news conference Thursday, said she requested information on the flight patterns ...

2 days ago · This crash comes just over a month after a passenger jet crashed in South Korea – possibly as a result of a bird strike – killing all but two of the 181 people on board. The two incidents have ...

In aviation, a mid-air collision is an accident in which two or more aircraft come into unplanned contact during flight. [1] Owing to the relatively high velocities involved and the likelihood of subsequent impact with the ground or sea, very severe damage or the total destruction of at least one of the aircraft usually results.

3 days ago · Investigators are trying to determine how an American Airlines flight and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter collided in the air Wednesday night. Authorities say they believe all 67 people onboard ...

3 days ago · A strained air traffic control system and congestion in the air space over many major cities has squeezed the margins of safety needed to operate the America’s air transportation system, Captain ...