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The two aircraft collided at a height yet to be precisely established (at its last tracking point, the plane was below 300 feet [91 m]), causing the helicopter to explode and crash into the Potomac River. The airliner's airspeed was 128 miles per hour (206 km/h; 111 kn). [34]
A barge carrying a crane moves parts of the wreckage from the Potomac River after American Eagle flight 5342 and a Black Hawk helicopter crashed near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
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 ...
A crane retrieves part of aircraft wreckage on Feb. 5, 2025, from the Potomac River after a collision between American Eagle Flight 5342 and a Black Hawk helicopter last week.
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.
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 ...
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, by Ronald Reagan Washington National ...
WASHINGTON – Search crews recovered 41 bodies from the Potomac River after the collision of a passenger plane and a U.S. Army helicopter killed 67 people in the deadliest aviation disaster in ...