Some passengers felt a little uneasy at BWI Thurgood Marshall on Thursday as they grappled with the news from officials that there were no survivors in the Flight 5342 crash in the Potomac.
PAT-25, do you have the CRJ in sight?” the controller asks the helicopter pilot, according to audio posted by the Associated Press.
Passengers aboard a flight from New Orleans to Washington, D.C., witnessed a mid-air collision involving a Blackhawk helicopter and an American Airlines jet near Reagan National Airport.
A tragic crash occurred near Reagan National Airport, with a jet and an Army helicopter colliding in the Potomac River, leaving all on board feared dead.
Flight data showed the plane coming from New Orleans looping around Reagan before heading to Baltimore moments after the collision. To jet was rerouted to Baltimore before 8:10 p.m. and landed at about 8:15 p.m., according to FlightAware .
As many as 60 passengers and four crew members were aboard American Eagle Flight 5342, and the Black Hawk helicopter was carrying three soldiers. There were no survivors.
According to FlightRadar24.com, American Airlines Flight AA3130 was right behind American Eagle Flight 5342 before it quickly diverted to Baltimore.
The crash and rescue on the icy river connecting Washington, DC and Virginia had similarities to this one. Five of the 79 aboard the flight survived.
Baltimore County figure skater Ting Cui was competing at U.S. Nationals in Wichita, Kansas, this week and knew several victims in the deadly plane crash in Washington, D.C. “The figure skating community is small,
Crews are recovering bodies from the Potomac River after a military helicopter and a commercial plane collided, killing all 67 people on board both aircraft.
A passenger plane and a military helicopter collided close to Ronald Reagan National Airport on Wednesday night. American Airlines Flight 5342 was approaching a runway at the airport to land shortly before 9 p.m. EST before it collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk military helicopter.
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