A passenger jet and a Black Hawk helicopter collided in midair Wednesday and crashed into the Potomac River near Reagan National Airport near Washington, D.C. President Trump confirmed Thursday that there were no survivors.
Latest news and live updates after an American Airline jet collided with a Black Hawk helicopter over the Potomac River.
A pair of black boxes has been recovered from the American Airlines jet involved in a mid-air collision with a military helicopter, which left no survivors.
Sixty passengers and four crew members from the plane and three Black Hawk helicopter personnel are feared dead as a recovery mission is underway.
The runway American Eagle Flight 5342 was supposed to land on will be closed until Feb. 7, according to a memo sent to pilots on Thursday.
Sean Duffy, the US Secretary of Transportation, shared his intent to share Donald Trump's transparency in the investigation of the January 29 crash.
An American Eagle regional jet collided with a US Army Black Hawk helicopter on final approach to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
A preliminary FAA safety report revealed that at the time of the crash, staffing in the D.C. control tower was not at normal levels for the amount of traffic and time of day.
The first flight allowed out of Reagan National Airport after the deadly Washington, D.C. crash came to Nashville on Thursday morning. Passengers on Southwest flight 1417 said they were very relieved to touchdown safely at BNA after the tragedy that’s presumed to have killed 67 people.
Following the catastrophe of Flight 5342, President Trump named an interim replacement for the vacant position of FAA administrator after the SpaceX founder chased out predecessor Mike Whitaker.
The president's response to the American Eagle Flight 5342 crash was, by any fair measure, obscene — which he made worse with an ugly executive memorandum.