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It was also the first fatal crash involving American Airlines since Flight 587 on November 12, 2001, [49] as well as the first fatal crash of a CRJ700 series aircraft. [50] It was the first crash in the Potomac River since Air Florida Flight 90 on January 13, 1982. [51]
A crane retrieves part of the wreckage from the Potomac River, in the aftermath of the collision of American Eagle flight 5342 and a Black Hawk helicopter that crashed into the river, by the ...
At 4:01 pm EST, it crashed into the 14th Street Bridge across the Potomac River, 0.75 nmi (0.9 mi; 1.4 km) from the end of the runway. The plane hit six cars and a truck on the bridge, and tore away 97 feet (30 m) of the bridge's rail and 41 feet (12 m) of the bridge's wall. [4]: 5 The aircraft then plunged into the freezing Potomac River.
Sixty-seven people are feared dead after a military helicopter collided with a commercial airplane in the sky over Washington, D.C. on Wednesday night before crashing into the Potomac River near ...
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 ...
The crash came just weeks after the 43rd anniversary of an Air Florida flight going down in the Potomac due to bad weather, killing 78 people on Jan. 13, 1982. With Post wires Show comments
Large sections of the plane plunged into the icy Potomac River following the crash, where it was later found in three pieces. Petty Officer 1st Class Brandon Giles/U S Coast Guard/UPI/Shutterstock.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began operations Feb. 3, 2025, to remove the mangled fuselage of a plane and a helicopter from the Potomac River after a midair collision near Ronald Reagan ...