An Army Black Hawk helicopter collided with a regional jet near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday evening, U.S. officials confirmed to ABC News.
At a press conference shortly after 9 a.m. ET, Wichita (KS) Mayor Lily Wu said city officials were at the Reagan Washington National Airport in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday evening when services were offered to family members of the doomed crash victims aboard a commercial flight that collided with a
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy had been sworn in just hours before the deadly midair collision of a plane and helicopter near Washington, D.C.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy told reporters that the flight patterns of both the American Airlines jet and blackhawk military aircraft that crashed late Wednesday were not "unusual."
The plane went down in the Potomac River near Reagan National Airport. An American Airlines regional jet went down in the Potomac River near Washington, D.C.'s Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport after colliding with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter on Wednesday night, with no survivors expected.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said that the collision between an American Airlines passenger plane and an Army helicopter was preventable.
No survivors are expected, authorities said Thursday, after a commercial flight and a helicopter collided in midair Wednesday night as the jet was about to land at Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington,
The search and rescue mission was transitioning to a recovery mission, and no survivors were expected, DC Fire and EMS Chief John Donnelly said.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said late on Thursday he will soon announce a plan to reform the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) after a devastating collision between an American Airlines regional plane and an Army helicopter killed 67 people.
A midair collision between an Army helicopter and an American Airlines flight killed all 67 people aboard the two aircrafts
Residents in Wichita, Kansas, came together Thursday to mourn the lives of those lost on board a passenger jet that was involved in a deadly mid-air collision overnight at Reagan National Airport.