More than 60 people are feared dead after an American Airlines regional passenger jet collided with a US army helicopter at Ronald Reagan Washington Airport. The accident occurred on a busy runway, highlighting concerns over safety in the airspace surrounding the US capital.
More than 60 people are believed to have died after an American Airlines regional passenger jet collided with a US army helicopterFootage of the collision at Ronald Reagan Washington Airport.American Eagle Flight 5342 was operated by PSA Airlines, an Ohio-based regional subsidiary of American Airlines. The plane was a CRJ700, the airline said, from a line of regional jets made by Canada’s Bombardier, later sold to Mitsubishi.
The helicopter was a Sikorsky H-60 Black Hawk. It had been on a military training flight and was operating out of Davison Army Airfield in Fort Belvoir, Virginia, south ofA few minutes before the jet was due to land, air traffic controllers asked the pilots if they could land on a shorter runway than the north-south runway it was originally heading for, and the pilots agreed.
There have been several near-miss incidents at Reagan National that have sparked alarm, including a near-collision in May 2024 between an American Airlines jet and a small aeroplane, and one in April 2024 between Southwest and JetBlue planes.Plane crash near Washington DC: what we know so farWorld champion Russian pair and US skaters were onboard crashed plane
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