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On January 29, 2025, a United States Army Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter collided mid-air with American Airlines Flight 5342 (operated by PSA Airlines as American Eagle), [a] a Bombardier CRJ700 airliner, over the Potomac River, about half a mile (800 m) short of runway 33 at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia.
A timeline of the Washington, D.C., plane crash on Jan. 29 details the moments before and after an American Airlines passenger flight and Army helicopter collided over the Potomac.
American Airlines Flight 5342 and an Army helicopter collided in midair near Washington D.C.'s Ronald Reagan National last Wednesday night, sending both aircraft into the Potomac River and killing ...
A barge carrying a crane moves parts of the wreckage of a passenger jet from the Potomac River on Feb. 5, 2025. Salvage crews are removing pieces of American Eagle Flight 5342 and a Black Hawk ...
This is a list of aircraft shootdowns, dogfights and other incidents during wars since World War II.An aircraft shootdown occurs when an aircraft is struck by a projectile launched or fired from another aircraft or from the ground (anti-aircraft warfare) which causes the targeted aircraft to lose its ability to continue flying normally, and then subsequently crashing into land or sea, often ...
The last deadly major crash involving a commercial airliner in the U.S. was in 2009, when all 49 people aboard a Colgan Air flight died when the plane crashed in New York state. One person was ...
Editor's note: This page reflects news from Friday, Jan. 31. For the latest updates on the plane crash, please read USA TODAY's coverage of the investigation on Saturday, Feb. 1.. WASHINGTON ...
The aircraft was designed by Nikolai Polikarpov to replace the U-1 trainer (a copy of the British Avro 504), which was known as Avrushka to the Soviets. [6]The prototype of the U-2, powered by a 74 kW (99 hp) Shvetsov M-11 air-cooled five-cylinder radial engine, first flew on 7 January 1928 piloted by M.M. Gromov. [6]