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Officials said it'll take several days to remove all of the wreckage from the D.C. plane crash. ... onto a barge with other parts recovered from the flight that took off from Wichita, Kansas, for ...
An American Airlines regional jet went down in the Potomac River near Washington, D.C.'s Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport after colliding with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter on ...
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 search for debris was extended to the Woodrow Wilson Bridge, three miles (5 km) south of the airport. [1] A crane used to lift debris after the March 2024 collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore was brought to help pick up plane wreckage, [62] and the U.S. Navy also sent two barges to recover heavy items. [63]
The pilot had shut down the other engines and gone out with a spray can to "blow out the moisture" prior to commencing the flight. [13] [14] The aircraft had taken off from Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks, Connecticut, at 09:48 local time (13:48 UTC), on a local flight. [10] [15] It carried three crew and ten passengers. [16]
The 51-year-old male pilot David Vopat was a certified flight instructor and held an airline transport pilot certificate. He held type ratings for various modern and historical aircraft, and had accrued 20,029 hours of total flight time, including 25 flight hours in the accident aircraft over a 4-year period. He was wearing a parachute during ...
All major pieces of the American Airlines plane and Black Hawk helicopter that collided last week in Washington, DC, have been recovered, the National Transportation Safety Board announced Saturday.
A crane retrieves part of the wreckage of American Eagle Flight 5342 from the Potomac River, in the aftermath of the deadly midair collision between the plane and an Army Black Hawk helicopter, by ...