The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has recovered the cockpit voice and flight data recorders after an American Airlines plane and military helicopter collided near Reagan National Airport (DCA).
No chute or slides appeared to be deployed from the American Airlines plane, according to J. Todd Inman, a member of the National Transportation Safety Board. “It was a very quick, rapid impact,” he said.
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,
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Sixty passengers and four crew members from the plane and three Black Hawk helicopter personnel are feared dead as a recovery mission is underway.
After a D.C.-bound American Airlines commercial regional jet crashed into an Army helicopter while attempting to land at Reagan National Airport, questions surrounding flight communications are among key details federal investigators will probe.
The Post can reveal that miscommunications in one of the most crowded and complex patches of sky in the US are likely to blame.
An American Airlines jet carrying 64 people collided Wednesday with a helicopter near Reagan Washington National Airport, with no survivors expected.
While landing at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday shortly before 9 p.m., American Airlines Flight 5342 collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter and crashed into the icy Potomac River.
DALLAS — Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board will likely be studying three main elements as they try to pinpoint the cause of the mid-air collision between American Airlines Flight 5342 and the U.S. Army helicopter on Wednesday night.
The National Transportation Safety Board gives an update and answers questions about the deadly plane crash involving a passenger plane and a military helicopter.