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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
Video shows the wreckage of the American Airlines passenger plane in the Potomac River following a deadly collision with a Black Hawk military helicopter. Officials say there are no survivors ...
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 ...
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]
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.
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 ...
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.
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