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Editor's note: This page reflects news of the plane crash near DC on Thursday, Jan. 30. For the latest updates on victim recovery efforts, please read USA TODAY's live coverage of the plane crash ...
Sonic boom ‘explosion’ shakes Washington, DC, as fighter jets react to unresponsive plane before crash Pilot of private jet was ‘unresponsive’ even as F-16s used ‘flares’ to draw attention
Watch live as recovery efforts continue in the Potomac River on Monday, 3 February, after the Washington DC plane crash, in which an American Airlines jet and a US Army Black Hawk helicopter ...
NTSB investigators at the crash scene on February 2. The FAA announced that it would investigate the crash, with the lead of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). The NTSB stated that an investigator had arrived on January 31 and more officials would arrive on February 1. [17] Cockpit voice recorder (CVR) recovered by NTSB from the ...
All 67 people aboard both aircraft were killed in the crash, including 64 passengers and crew on the airliner and the 3 crew of the helicopter. It was the first major U.S. commercial passenger flight crash in nearly 16 years since Colgan Air Flight 3407 in 2009, and the deadliest U.S. air disaster in nearly 24 years. [6] [7]
A CCTV image showing the fireball rising from the crash site of Flight 5960 The aircraft took off from the DHL hub at Leipzig Airport at 02:08 UTC (03:08 local) on 25 November. The accident occurred at 03:28 UTC (05:28 local) as it was making its final approach to Vilnius Airport .
The NTSB, alongside the FAA and other federal and local agencies, are investigating the crash. The NTSB briefing is expected to begin at 2:45 p.m. EST. Watch the live video above.
Residents in houses along the flight path, in South San Francisco, Daly City, and San Francisco, called into the airport to complain about the noise and voice their fears the aircraft was about to crash. [1] After the near-collision, UA863 was vectored out to sea to dump fuel to reduce weight and return to San Francisco for an overweight ...